Photographs
Photographs
Photographs from The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Sold to Benefit Acquisition Funds
'Wide Skull'
Lot Closed
April 10, 03:20 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Photographs from The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Sold to Benefit Acquisition Funds
Irving Penn
1917 - 2009
'Wide Skull, N.Y.'
gelatin silver print, titled, dated and annotated 'morning light' and 'unique test print' in pencil and with the photographer's 'Photograph by Irving Penn' copyright and 'TEST' stamps on the reverse
image: 15⅞ by 19¾ in. (40.3 by 50.2 cm.)
Executed in 1993.
Gift of the photographer in 2000 to the present owner
Colin Westerbeck, ed., Irving Penn: A Career in Photography (The Art Institute of Chicago, 1997), p. 105
Irving Penn, Still Life (Boston, 2001), unpaginated
Irving Penn, A Notebook at Random (New York, 2004), p. 39
"Neither morbid reliquaries nor sentimental mementos, these photographs are not merely imitations of death, but an advertisement of its inevitability. Penn’s skulls speak of permanence, not decay." (Irving Penn: Master Images, p. 12)
Catalogue note
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