Irving Penn
1950 (negative), 1983 (print)
Gelatin silver print on paper, selenium toned.
Image: 10 13/16 x 10 9/16 inches (27.5 x 26.8 cm); Sheet: 13 15/16 x 10 15/16 inches (35.4 x 27.7cm)
Gift of Irving Penn, 2006.
2007.32
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Irving Penn.
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Verso: signed in graphite and stamped in black ink, center [encircled]: Irving Penn / IRVING PENN; inscribed in graphite, upper left: SS3; inscribed in graphite, upper right: RM; inscribed in graphite, upper center [in rectangular border]: STANLEY SPENCER / LONDON, 1950; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, upper left: REF. 12616; inscribed in graphite, center: Print made 1983. / I.P.; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, 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 NAST PUBLICATIONS INC.; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, center: SIGNED, SILVER PRINTS OF / THIS NEGATIVE NOT EXCEEDING 21; stamped in black ink, lower right: TONED IN SELENIUM.
Notes:
Edition of 21. The artist identifies this image as number 2 out of 3 portraits of Stanley Spencer.
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