Irving Penn - Photographs New York Monday, April 4, 2016 | Phillips

Photographs

New York Auction 4 April 2016 

  • Provenance

    Higher Pictures Gallery, New York

  • Literature

    Knopf/Callaway, Irving Penn: Passage, A Work Record, p. 57
    Szarkowski, Irving Penn, pl. 9

  • 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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Irving Penn

Truman Capote, March 5

1948
Gelatin silver print.
9 5/8 x 7 3/4 in. (24.4 x 19.7 cm)
Signed, titled, dated, annotated 'print made near date of photograph', initialed in pencil, Condé Nast (courtesy Vogue) copyright credit reproduction limitation, credit and edition stamps on the verso. One from an edition of 42.

Estimate
$12,000 - 18,000 

Sold for $18,750

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Photographs

New York Auction 4 April 2016