ID 1164240
Lot 415 | IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Estimate value
£ 100 000 – 150 000
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
| Artist: | Irving Penn (1917 - 2009) |
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| Art style: | Contemporary art |
| Auction house category: | Photography |
| Artist: | Irving Penn (1917 - 2009) |
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| Art style: | Contemporary art |
| Auction house category: | Photography |
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