IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
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ID 1450910
Lot 43 | IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Estimate value
80000GBP £ 80 000 – 120 000
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 ¼ x 19 ½in. (57.9 x 49.4cm.)
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 1999.
Literature
'A Trance of Poppies', in American Vogue, December 1969 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 207).
I. Penn, Irving Penn: Flowers, New York 1980 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 4).
M. S. Smith, Houses, New York 2008 (another from the edition illustrated, pp. 149-150 and 152).
M. Morris Hambourg, Irving Penn: Centennial, New Haven 2017, pl. 206 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 307).
Exhibited
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Irving Penn, 1975 (another from the edition exhibited).
Geneva, 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 (another from the edition exhibited).
London, Hamiltons Gallery, Irving Penn: Flower Power, 2007-2008 (another from the edition exhibited).
London, Hamiltons Gallery, Irving Pen: Flowers, 2015-2016, p. 12, pl. 1 (another from the edition exhibited and illustrated in colour, pp. 6, 13 and 92).
London, Hamiltons Gallery, Richard Learoyd & Irving Penn: Flowers, 2022 (another from the edition exhibited).
Further Details
Another example from the edition is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Artist: | Irving Penn (1917 - 2009) |
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Auction house category: | Photography |
Artist: | Irving Penn (1917 - 2009) |
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Auction house category: | Photography |
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