Lot 77
  • 77

Irving Penn

Estimate
18,000 - 23,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Irving Penn
  • 'Dahomey Children', Dahomey, 1967
  • Silver print
Platinum-palladium print, printed September 1969 and mounted to aluminium. Signed, titled, numbered 39/45 and annotated in pencil and with the 'In addition to 45 numbered prints of this image in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver prints not exceeding a total of 15 may exist.', 'Hand-coated by the photographer' and 'Deacidified' stamps and with the photographer's copyright label on the reverse.

Provenance

Pace/ MacGill Gallery, New York

Literature

Irving Penn, Worlds in a Small Room, Penguin Books, 1974, ill. p. 37;
Irving Penn, Passage, Alfred A. Knopf/Callaway, 1991, ill. p. 170

Condition

This print is in excellent condition. With slightly worn edges in the margin, away from the image.
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