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IRVING PENN | 'CAMEROON, SEATED WARRIOR, SITTING GIRL'

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October 1, 07:44 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

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IRVING PENN

1917-2009

'CAMEROON, SEATED WARRIOR, SITTING GIRL'


platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted to aluminum, signed, titled, dated, editioned '10/25,' and annotated in pencil and stamped on the reverse, 1950, printed in 1977

image: 21¾ by 19⅜ in. (55.2 by 49.2 cm.)

Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

By descent to the present owner

John Szarkowski, Irving Penn (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1984), pl. 98

Irving Penn, Worlds in a Small Room (New York, 1974), p. 45 (variant)

Irving Penn, Passage: A Work Record (New York, 1991), p. 184 (variant)

Sarah Greenough, Irving Penn: Platinum Prints (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2005), pl. 60