Classic Photographs
Classic Photographs
Irving Penn
Black and White Vogue Cover (Jean Patchett, New York)
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October 7, 03:27 PM GMT
Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
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Irving Penn
1917 - 2009
Black and White Vogue Cover (Jean Patchett, New York)
platinum-palladium print, signed, titled, dated, editioned '8/34,' and annotated in pencil and stamped on the reverse, 1950, printed in 1974
image: 16 ¼ by 13 ½ in. (41.3 by 34.3 cm.)
'The Black and White Idea,' Vogue, 1 April 1950, cover
Irving Penn, Moments Preserved (New York, 1960), p. 159
John Szarkowski, Irving Penn (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1984), pl. 48
Irving Penn, Passage: A Work Record (New York, 1991), p. 100
Colin Westerbeck, ed., Irving Penn: A Career in Photography (The Art Institute of Chicago, 1997), pl. 4
Ned Rifkin, Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection (Atlanta, 2000), p. 65
Sarah Greenough, Irving Penn: Platinum Prints (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2005), p. 11
Norberto Angeletti and Alberto Oliva, In Vogue: The Illustrated History of the World's Most Famous Fashion Magazine (New York, 2012), p. 129
cf. Maria Morris Hambourg and Jeff Rosenheim, Irving Penn: Centennial (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2017), pl. 38