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IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Three Dahomey Girls, One Reclining, 1967
platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted on aluminum, printed 1969
signed, titled, dated [with print date] and numbered '15 / 35' and '171' in pencil with stamped photographer's copyright credit, Condé Nast Publications reproduction limitation and edition information in ink, credited, titled, and dated on affixed photographer's credit and reproduction limitation label (mount, verso)
image: 1934 x 1958 in. (50.2 x 49.8 cm.)
sheet: 22 x 2478 in. (55.9 x 63.2 cm.)
flush mount: 22 x 26 in. (55.9 x 66 cm.)
This work is number fifteen from an edition of thirty-five.
Provenance
From the collection of Thomas Walther;
Private Collection, New York;
Christie's, New York, April 11, 2008, Lot 329;
Private Collection, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Irving Penn, Worlds in a Small Room, Grossman Publishers, 1974, p. 35;
John Szarkowski, Irving Penn, Museum of Modern Art, 1984, pl. 96.
Irving Penn, Passage: A Work Record, Alfred A.Knopf/Callaway, New York, 1991, p. 171.
Exhibition catalogue, Irving Penn, Musee D'art et D'histoire, Fribourg, 1994, pl. 46, p. 69.
Colin Westerbeck, Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, Art Institute of Chicago, 1997, pl.102.
Exhibition catalogue, Irving Penn: Ethnos, Bernheimer Fine Art Photography, Munich, 2012, pl. 18.
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