Irving Penn

platinum-palladium print, signed, titled, dated, numbered '6/25,' and with technical, edition, and copyright information by the photographer in pencil and his Condé Nast copyright and edition stamps on the reverse, matted, 1950, printed in November 1976, no. 6 in an edition of 25 in platinum metals (MoMA, pl. 89; Passage, p. 91; Worlds in a Small Room, p. 23; Moments Preserved, p. 166; A Notebook at Random, p. 97; Platinum Prints, pl. 27)

Acquired by the present owner from Marlborough Gallery, New York, 1977

This photograph, on Arches paper, is in generally excellent condition.
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