Irving Penn - Photographs New York Friday, April 5, 2024 | Phillips
    • Provenance

      Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, 1992

    • 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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FIGURE + FORM: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION

344

Black Cup with Grains

1975
Platinum-palladium print.
22 x 15 in. (55.9 x 38.1 cm)
Signed, initialed, titled, dated, numbered 2/29, annotated in pencil, copyright credit and reproduction limitation stamps on the verso. Further stamped and annotated 'Of this image, originally 29 prints were made, 19 prints were destroyed 3/'87, a total of 10 now exist', also on the verso.

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$12,000 - 18,000 

Sold for $12,700

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New York Auction 5 April 2024