“I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That’s the curse of being a photographer.”
—Irving Penn
- Provenance
  Pace/McGill Gallery, New York
- Literature
  J. Szarkowski et al., Irving Penn, New York: MoMA, 1984, pl. 103
  L. Wells, Photography: A Critical Introduction, London: Routledge, 2004, p. 181
- 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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Irving Penn

Lipstick Chunks, New York

1982
Dye transfer print, printed 1984, mounted.
46 x 58 cm (18 1/8 x 22 7/8 in.)
Signed, initialled, titled, dated in ink, ‘Condé Nast’ copyright credit reproduction limitation, credit and edition stamps on the reverse of the mount. One from an edition of 22.

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£20,000 - 30,000

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