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IRVING PENN (1917–2009)
Salvador Dali, New York, 1947
gelatin silver print
signed, titled, dated [with print date], numbered '2507' and annotated in ink with stamped photographer's 'Photograph by PENN', 'DATE OF SITTING', copyright credit, Condé Nast Publications reproduction limitation and edition information in ink (verso)
image: 958 x 734 in. (24.4 x 19.7 cm.)
sheet: 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm.)
This work is from an edition of thirty-one.
Provenance
Pace/MacGill Gallery;
acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Alexander Liberman and Rosemary Blackmon, Irving Penn: Moments Preserved, Eight Essays in Photographs and Words, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1960, p. 133.
Merry A. Foresta, Irving Penn: Master Images, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C., 1990, pl. 4, p. 17.
Alexandra Arrowsmith and Nicola Majocchi, Irving Penn: Passage: a Work Record, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1991, p. 40.
Merry A. Foresta, Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2015, pl. 43, p. 79.
Maria Morris Hambourg et al., Irving Penn: Centennial, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2017, pl. 18, p. 79.
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