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IRVING PENN (1917–2009)
Pablo Picasso at La Californie, Cannes, 1957
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed before 1965
signed, titled, dated [with print date], numbered '8389' and annotated in ink with stamped photographer's copyright credit, Condé Nast Publications reproduction limitation and edition information in ink (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 2238 x 2238 in. (56.8 x 56.8 cm.)
mount: 2978 x 2978 in. (75.9 x 75.9 cm.)
This work is from an edition of thirty.
Provenance
Wildenstein Tokyo Ltd., Tokyo;
acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Irving Penn, Moments Preserved, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1960, p. 39.
John Szarkowski, Irving Penn, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984, p. 27.
Irving Penn, Irving Penn: Passage: A Work Record, Knopf: Callaway, New York, 1991, p. 125.
Colin Westerbeck, Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1997, pl. 64, p. 114.
Sarah Greenough, Irving Penn: Platinum Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2005, pl. 37.
Magdalene Keaney, Irving Penn: Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, 2010, pl. 17.
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