Irving Penn

platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted to aluminum, signed, annotated, and editioned '18/40' in pencil and stamped on the reverse, framed, 1948, printed in 1971 (MoMA, pl. 14; Passage, p. 28; Platinum Prints, pl. 3)

Marlborough Gallery, New York, early 1970s

This exceptional print, on Wiggins Teape paper, is in generally excellent condition. There are thin abrasions along the print's margin edges and on the reverse of the flush-mount, none of which affects the print. There is faint rust-colored and ink-colored soiling on the abrasions; these do not affect the image. There is a faint 8-inch linear mark in the upper left margin that does not affect the image.
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