IRVING PENN (1917-2009)

Lot 415
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Lot 415 | IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
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IRVING PENN (1917-2009)

Three Poppies, Arab Chief, New York, 1969

signed, titled, date of image and of print in pencil with copyright reproduction, edition and print information stamps '3 POPPIES, ARAB CHIEF (NEW YORK, 1969) Irving Penn' (on the reverse)

dye transfer print

image: 21 7⁄8 x 18 1⁄8in. (55 x 46cm.)

sheet: 22 7⁄8 x 19 ½in. (58 x 49.5cm.)

Photographed in 1969 and printed in 1992, this work is from an edition of twenty-seven





Provenance

Hamiltons Gallery, London.

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1992.



Literature

“A Trance of Poppies”, American Vogue, December 1969 (illustrated p. 207).

Irving Penn, Irving Penn : Flowers, Harmony Books, New York 1980 (illustrated p. 4).

Michael S. Smith, Houses, New York, 2008 (illustrated pp. 149-150 and 152.)

Irving Penn: Centennial, New Haven and London, 2017, (illustrated pl. 206, p. 307).



Exhibited

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Irving Penn, 1975 (another from the edition illustrated).

Genava, Musee d'art et d'histoire Irving Penn, Irving Penn,1994, p. 73. (another from the edition illustrated).

New York, Pace/MacGill Gallery, Irving Penn: In Flower, 2007.

London, Hamiltons Gallery, Irving Penn: Flower Power, 2007-2008.

London, Hamiltons Gallery, Irving Pen: Flowers, 2015-2016 (another from the edition exhibited).

London, Hamiltons Gallery, Richard Learoyd & Irving Penn: Flowers, 2022 (another from the edition exhibited).



Further Details

Another example from the edition ins in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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