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Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations
'Nude 18'
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Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations
Irving Penn
1917 - 2009
'Nude 18'
gelatin silver print, signed, titled, dated and annotated in pencil, stamped with the photographer's 'Photograph by Irving Penn' and a Condé Nast copyright/reproduction rights stamps on the reverse, framed, a Fraenkel Gallery label on the reverse
image: 16¼ by 15⅜ in. (41.3 by 39.1 cm.)
frame: 25 by 25 in. (63.5 by 63.5 cm.)
Executed in 1949-50, this print is one from an edition of no more than 16.
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Irving Penn, Moments Preserved (New York, 1960), p. 148
Irving Penn, Passage: A Work Record (New York, 1991), p. 68
Colin Westerbeck, ed., Irving Penn: A Career in Photography (The Art Institute of Chicago, 1997), p. 17 (illustrated in Penn’s log book)
Maria Morris Hambourg, Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn’s Nudes, 1949-50 (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002), p. 27
Maria Morris Hambourg and Jeff Rosenheim, Irving Penn: Centennial (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2017), pl. 6
San Francisco, Fraenkel Gallery, Irving Penn: Radical Beauty 1946 - 2007, June - August 2011
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