IRVING PENN (1917-2009)

Lot 166
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Lot 166 | IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
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IRVING PENN (1917-2009)

Girl Drinking (MJR), New York, 1949

platinum-palladium print, mounted on aluminum, printed 1979

signed, titled, dated with print date and numbered '4⁄25' and '1381' in pencil, stamped photographer's copyright credit and Condé Nast Publications reproduction limitation in ink, with edition information (mount, verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed Sir Elton John Photography collection and museum labels (frame backing board)

image: 20⁄12 x 19 ½ in. (50.5 x 47.5 cm.)

sheet: 25 x 22 in. (63.5 x 55.8 cm.)

mount: 26 ¼ x 22 in. (66.6 x 55.8 cm.)





Provenance

Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta;

acquired from the above by the present owner, 1992.



Literature

John Szarkowski, Irving Penn, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984, pl. 41.

Exhibition catalogue, Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1997, pl. 77.

Merry A Foresta, Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2015, pl. 71, p. 112.



Exhibited

Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, November 4, 2000– January 28, 2001.
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