Irving Penn - Photographs New York Tuesday, April 1, 2014 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles

  • Artist Biography

    Irving Penn

    American • 1917 - 2009

    Arresting portraits, exquisite flowers, luscious food and glamorous models populate Irving Penn's meticulously rendered, masterful prints. Penn employed the elegant simplicity of a gray or white backdrop to pose his subjects, be it a model in the latest Parisian fashion, a famous subject or veiled women in Morocco.

    Irving Penn's distinct aesthetic transformed twentieth-century elegance and style, with each brilliant composition beautifully articulating his subjects. Working across several photographic mediums, Penn was a master printmaker. Regardless of the subject, each and every piece is rendered with supreme beauty. 

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Gaultier Eye Earrings, New York, January 26

1998
Dye destruction print.
22 1/8 x 20 in. (56.2 x 50.8 cm)
Signed, titled, dated, initialed in pencil, Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation, credit and edition stamps on the verso. One from an edition of 6.

Estimate
$30,000 - 50,000 

Sold for $37,500

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