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IRVING PENN (1917–2009)
Cuzco Children, Peru 1948
platinum-palladium print, mounted on aluminum, printed 1978
signed, titled, dated [with print date] and numbered '60/60' and ‘1438’ in pencil, stamped photographer's/Condé Nast copyright credits and edition information (mount, verso)
image: 1912 x 2014 in. (49.5 x 51.4 cm.)
sheet: 22 x 2478 in. (55.8 x 63.1 cm.)
mount: 23 x 26 in. (58.4 X 66 cm.)
This work is number sixty from and edition of sixty.
Provenance
Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 2012.
Literature
Irving Penn, Irving Penn: Moments Preserved; Eight Essays in Photographs and Words, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1960, p. 98.
Irving Penn, Worlds in a Small Room, Penguin Books, New York, 1980, 1974 p.13.
John Szarkowski, Irving Penn, Museum of Modern Art ; Distributed by New York Graphic Society Books, New York, 1984, pl. 59.
Irving Penn, Irving Penn: Passage: A Work Record, Knopf: Callaway, New York, 1991, p. 61.
Irving Penn, Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1997, p. 175.
Irving Penn, Irving Platinum: Platinum Prints, National Gallery of Art ; Yale University Press, Washington: New Haven, 2005, pl. 15.
Irving Penn, Irving Penn: Ethnos, Bernheimer Fine Art Photography, Munich, 2011, pl. 15.
Maria Mori Hamburg, Irving Penn: Centennial, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2017, pl.50, p.118.
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