Irving Penn
1946 (negative), ca. 1946 (print)
Gelatin silver print on paper; mounted to cardstock.
Image and sheet: 7 7/16 x 7 1/6 inches (18.9 x 17.9 cm); mount: 14 1/16 x 10 15/16 inches (35.7 x 27.8 cm)
Purchased as the gift of Richard L. Menschel and with the support of The Horace W. Goldsmith Fund for Americana and The Margaret T. Morris Fund.
2007.24
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Irving Penn.
Inscription:
Verso of mount: signed and stamped in black ink, center [encircled]: Irving Penn / IRVING PENN; inscribed in black ink, upper right: 13392 P-13; inscribed in graphite, upper right: NP; stamped in black ink, upper right: [3 stars]; stamped and inscribed in black ink, upper left: REF. 1180; inscribed in black ink, upper center [in rectangular border]: PAUL CADMUS / NEW YORK, DEC. 4, 1946; inscribed in black ink, center: CADMUS; inscribed in black ink, center: Print made near to date of / photographic sitting. / I.P.; stamped in black ink, center: COPYRIGHT / NOT TO BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT / WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM / THE CONDÉ NAST PUBLICATIONS, INC.; stamped in black ink, lower center: PHOTOGRAPH / BY / PENN; stamped and inscribed in black ink, lower center: PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1984 by Irving Penn, COURTESY OF VOGUE / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright owner and / THE CONDE NASTE PUBLICATIONS INC.; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, center right: SIGNED, SILVER PRINTS OF / THIS NEGATIVE NOT EXCEEDING 6.; printed in black ink, center left [sideways]: BAINBRIDGE / Kromo-Lite / LICENSED / BOARD / Adapted for Kromo-Lite Process / 20x30 22x30 30x40 / SINGLE THICK DOUBLE THICK / CHAS. T. BAINBRIDGE'S SONS / 20 CUMBERLAND ST. BROOKLYN, N.Y.
Notes:
Edition of 6.
Mount manufactured by Bainbridge Kromo-Lite.
The artist identifies this image as number 1 out of 2 portraits that he made of Cadmus.
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