Irving Penn - Photographs London Thursday, November 21, 2024 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Hamiltons Gallery, London, circa 2000

  • Literature

    Hambourg and Rosenheim, Irving Penn: Centennial, p. 264

  • Artist Biography

    Irving Penn

    American • 1917 - 2009

    Arresting portraits, exquisite flowers, luscious food and glamorous models populate Irving Penn's meticulously rendered, masterful prints. Penn employed the elegant simplicity of a gray or white backdrop to pose his subjects, be it a model in the latest Parisian fashion, a famous subject or veiled women in Morocco.

    Irving Penn's distinct aesthetic transformed twentieth-century elegance and style, with each brilliant composition beautifully articulating his subjects. Working across several photographic mediums, Penn was a master printmaker. Regardless of the subject, each and every piece is rendered with supreme beauty. 

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Cigarettes #135 (C415)

1972
Platinum-palladium print, printed 1974, mounted.
58 x 46.5 cm (22 7/8 x 18 1/4 in.)
Signed, initialled, dated, numbered 4/15, annotated in pencil, copyright credit reproduction limitation and credit stamps on the reverse of the mount.

Estimate
£15,000 - 25,000 

Sold for £17,780

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London Auction 21 November 2024