Irving Penn b. 1917

platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted to aluminum, signed, titled, dated, numbered '16/40,' and with technical, edition, and copyright information by the photographer in pencil and with his Condé Nast copyright and edition stamps on the reverse, matted, 1951, printed in 1983, no. 16 in an edition of 40 in platinum metals

Acquired by the present owner from the Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto, 1991

Other prints of this image:

Irving Penn, Moments Preserved (New York, 1960), p. 67

Merry A. Foresta and William F. Stapp, Irving Penn: Master Images, The Collections of the National Museum of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery (Washington, D. C.: National Museum of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery, 1990, in conjunction with the exhibition), pl. 42

Irving Penn, Passage: A Work Record (New York, 1991), p. 102

Colin Westerbeck, ed., Irving Penn: A Career in Photography (The Art Institute of Chicago, 1997, in conjunction with the exhibition), pl. 24

Irving Penn, A Notebook at Random (New York, 2004), p. 103