Lot 131
  • 131

Irving Penn

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Irving Penn
  • 'Gypsy Family (Spain)', 1966
  • photograph
Platinum-palladium print, printed February 1971, flush-mounted to aluminium. Signed, initialled, numbered 19/28 and annotated Wiggins transfer paper on aluminium multiple coating and printing 1 - Palladium 2 - Platinum-palladium print made Jan - Feb 1971 in pencil, titled on a Conde Nast copyright typewritten label, with the 'In addition to 28 numbered prints of this image in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver prints not exceeding a total of 15 may exist', the 'Hand-coated by the photographer' and the 'Deacidified' stamps on the reverse. Mounted and framed.

Provenance

Marlborough Gallery, New York

Literature

Alfred A. Knopf, Irving Penn: Passage, New York, Callaway, 1991, ill. p. 154, there titled and dated Gypsy Family, Estremadura, Spain, 1965.

Condition

This platinum-palladium print is in very good condition. With very faint discolouration hardly visible in the margins, with a light scratch of approx. 2 cm in the upper margin and a few spots near the lower right corner, all away from the image.
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