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IRVING PENN (1917–2009)
David Smith, Bolton's Landing, Lake George, New York, 1964
platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted on aluminum, printed 1979
signed, titled, dated [with print date], numbered '1 /16', '266' and annotated in pencil with stamped photographer's copyright credit, Condé Nast Publications reproduction limitation and edition information in ink (flush mount, verso)
image: 1534 x 1512 in. (40 x 39.4 cm.)
sheet: 24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm.)
flush mount: 25 x 20 in. (63.5 x 50.8 cm.)
This work is number one from an edition of sixteen.
Provenance
Wildenstein Tokyo Ltd., Tokyo;
acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
John Szarkowski, Irving Penn, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984, pl. 137.
Irving Penn, Passage: A Work Record, Knopf/Callaway, 1991, p. 150.
Sarah Greenough, Irving Penn: Platinum Prints, National Gallery of Art; Yale University Press, Washington D.C.; New Haven, 2005, pl. 41.
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