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IRVING PENN (1917–2009)
Nubile Young Beauty of Diamaré, Cameroon, 1969
platinum-palladium print, mounted on aluminum, printed 1980
signed, titled, dated [with print date], and numbered ‘32/40’and ‘2541’ in ink, stamped photographer's copyright credit and Condé Nast Publications reproduction limitation (mount, verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed label (frame backing board)
image: 19 ¼ x 19 ½ in. (48.8 x 49.5 cm.)
sheet: 22 x 25 in. (55.8 x 63.5 cm)
mount: 22 x 26 in. (55.8 x 66 cm.)

This work is number thirty-two from an edition of forty.
Provenance
Fahey Klein Gallery, Los Angeles;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1990.
Literature
Alexander Liberman et al., Irving Penn: Passage: A Work Record, Knopf/Callaway, New York, 1991, p. 183.
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