Photographs

Photographs

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Photographs from The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Sold to Benefit Acquisition Funds

Irving Penn

'Three Dahomey Girls, One Standing'

Lot Closed

April 10, 03:25 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Photographs from The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Sold to Benefit Acquisition Funds

Irving Penn

1917 - 2009

'Three Dahomey Girls, One Standing'


platinum palladium print, signed, titled, dated and editioned '18/30' in pencil, with the photographer's 'Photograph by Irving Penn,' Condé Nast copyright/reproduction rights and edition stamps on the reverse

image: 18¾ by 18¼ in. (47.6 by 46.4 cm.)

Executed in 1967, printed in 1973.

The Halsted Gallery, Franklin, Michigan

Acquired from the above in 1980 by the present owner

Irving Penn, Worlds in a Small Room (New York, 194), p. 38