Irving Penn - Photographs London Tuesday, November 21, 2023 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Weston Gallery, Carmel-by-the-Sea
    Phillips, New York, 7 October 2021, lot 215
    Private Collection, London

  • Literature

    Irving Penn, A Career in Photography, Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1997, pl. 83

  • 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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46

Sitting Nude Rear, New York

1993
Platinum-palladium print, mounted.
47 x 47 cm (18 1/2 x 18 1/2 in.)
Signed, initialled, titled, dated, numbered 4/6, annotated in pencil, credit, 'Condé Nast' copyright credit and edition stamps on the reverse of the mount.

Estimate
£30,000 - 50,000 

Sold for £107,950

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Photographs

London Auction 21 November 2023