Irving Penn - Photographs Evening & Day New York Wednesday, October 5, 2016 | Phillips
  • Literature

    Knopf/Callaway, Irving Penn: Passage, A Work Record, p. 170

  • 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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Dahomey Children

1967
Platinum palladium print, printed 1973.
19 1/2 x 21 3/4 in. (49.5 x 55.2 cm)
Signed, titled, dated, numbered 28/45 in pencil, Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation, credit and edition stamps on the verso.

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$20,000 - 30,000 

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Photographs Evening & Day

New York 5 & 6 October 2016