Lot 27
  • 27

Irving Penn

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Irving Penn
  • 'Hippie Family (Kelly), San Francisco', 1967
  • Silver print
Platinum palladium print, printed 1976. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 1/25 in pencil and with the photographer's copyright stamp, the 'Hand-coated by the photographer' stamp, and 'In addition to 25 numbered prints of this image in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver prints not exceeding a total of 15 may exist' stamp on the reverse. Mounted and framed.

Literature

Irving Penn, Worlds in a Small Room, Grossman, New York, 1974, ill. p. 54;
John Szarkowski, Irving Penn, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984, ill. pl. 134;
Alexandra Arrowsmith, Nicola Majocchi and Irving Penn, Passage: A Work Record, Alfred A. Knopf/Callaway, New York, 1991, ill. p. 166.

Condition

This sheet is in overall very good condition. With very light, uniform yellowing to the print where it has been left exposed in the window mount. There are two remnants of tape on the reverse along the corners of the top edge.
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