Photographs

IRVING PENN | 'WOMAN IN PALACE (MARRAKECH, MOROCCO, LISA FONSSAGRIVES-PENN)'

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April 3, 06:52 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 USD

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IRVING PENN

1917-2009

'WOMAN IN PALACE (MARRAKECH, MOROCCO, LISA FONSSAGRIVES-PENN)'

selenium-toned, mounted, signed, titled, dated, and annotated in ink and stamped on the reverse, framed, 1951, printed in 1992, one of no more than 40 prints in gelatin silver

15⅜ by 15⅜ in. (39.1 by 39.1 cm.)

Irving Penn, Moments Preserved (New York, 1960), p. 67

John Szarkowski, Irving Penn (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1984), pl. 35

Merry A. Foresta and William F. Stapp, Irving Penn: Master Images (Washington, D. C., 1990), pl. 29

Irving Penn, Passage (New York, 1991), p. 102

Colin Westerbeck, ed., Irving Penn: A Career in Photography (The Art Institute of Chicago, 1997), pl. 24

Merry A. Foresta, Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty (Washington, D. C., and New York: Smithsonian American Art Museum in association with The Irving Penn Foundation, 2015), pl. 91