Irving Penn

Cigarette No. 17, New York

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October 5, 04:11 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

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Irving Penn

1917 - 2009

Cigarette No. 17, New York

platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted to aluminum, signed, inscribed 'A gift to old St. Pete with kindest wishes. IP.', numbered 'NEG. NO. 17' and 'C90,' and extensively annotated in pencil, and stamped on the reverse, 1972, printed in 1975, one from an edition of no more than 64

image: 23 ¼ by 18 ¼ in. (59.1 by 46.4 cm.)

frame: 33 ¼ by 27 ¾ in. (84.5 by 69.2 cm.)

Gift of the photographer, circa 1975

Irving Penn: Photographs in Platinum Metals – Images 1947-1975 (New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1977), unpaginated

John Szarkowski, Irving Penn (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1984), pl. 113

Irving Penn, Passage: A Work Record (New York, 1991), p. 208

Irving Penn, Still Life (Boston, 2001), unpaginated

Irving Penn: Cigarettes (London: Hamiltons Gallery, 2012), pp. 57 and 58