Irving Penn - Photographs New York Monday, April 9, 2018 | Phillips

Photographs

New York Auction 9 April 2018

  • Literature

    Penn, Still Life, n.p.
    Penn, Passage: A Work Record, p. 229

  • 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

Ospedale, March 4

1980
Platinum palladium print.
19 1/4 x 11 3/8 in. (48.9 x 28.9 cm)
Signed, titled, dated, numbered 4/54, annotated in pencil, copyright credit and edition stamps on the reverse of the aluminum flush-mount.

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for $21,875

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New York Auction 9 April 2018