Irving Penn - Photographs New York Thursday, April 8, 2021 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

  • Literature

    Penn, Still Life, n.p. there titled Still Life with Mouse, photograph for House & Garden, New York, January 15
    Penn, Passage: A Work Record, p. 31

  • 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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Still Life (with Mouse), New York

1947
Gelatin silver print.
9 5/8 x 7 1/2 in. (24.4 x 19.1 cm)
Signed, initialed, titled, dated and annotated 'Print made c. 1947' in ink, credit, Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps on the verso. One from an edition of 78.

Estimate
$7,000 - 9,000 

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Sarah Krueger
Head of Department, Photographs

Vanessa Hallett
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Photographs

New York Auction 8 April 2021