Lot 195
  • 195

Irving Penn

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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Description

  • Irving Penn
  • The Poor Lovers
  • signed, titled, dated 12-19-79, 1980 and Print Made November 1980, numbered 5/58, stamped with the artist's copyright stamp and variously inscribed on the reverse
  • platinum-palladium print on Strathmore paper, laid on aluminium
  • image: 49 by 28.2cm.; 19 1/4 by 11 1/8 in.
  • sheet: 61 by 40.6cm.; 24 by 16in.

Provenance

Galleria Photology, Milan

Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Another Story: Photography from the Moderna Museet Collection, 2011 (edition no. unknown)

Literature

Irving Penn, Passage: A Work Record, London 1991, p. 226, another example illustrated

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate. Condition: This work is in very good condition.
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