Irving Penn
1950 (negative), 1950-51 (print)
Gelatin silver print on paper; mounted to cardstock.
Image and sheet: 13 3/8 x 12 3/16 inches (34 x 32.6 cm); Mount: 15 5/16 x 14 3/4 inches (38.9 x 37.4 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.
2007.44
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Irving Penn.
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Verso of mount: signed and stamped in black ink, center right [encircled]: Irving Penn / IRVING PENN; inscribed in graphite, upper right [obscured by paste residue]: Eag; inscribed in graphite, upper right: MP; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, upper left: REF. 8507; inscribed in black ink, center left [in rectangular border]: HENRY MOORE / LONDON, 1950; stamped in black ink, center: COPYRIGHT / NOT TO BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT / WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM / THE CONDÉ NAST PUBLICATIONS INC.; stamped in black ink, center: Photograph / by / PENN; stamped and inscribed in black ink, center right: SIGNED, SILVER PRINTS OF / THIS NEGATIVE NOT EXCEEDING 7.; inscribed in black ink, center: 19839 P- 718 C; stamped and inscribed in black ink, center left: PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / COPYRIGHT © 1951 by / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS LTD. / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright owner.; inscribed in graphite, center: 8" [with arrows extending from either side] / 62 1/2; inscribed in black ink, lower center: Print made 1950-1951. / I.P.; stamped in black ink, lower center: [illegible] MAY 1951; inscribed in graphite, lower left: 747.
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Edition of 7.
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