Irving Penn - Photographs New York Wednesday, October 14, 2020 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

  • 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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18 Pieces with Medicine Bottle, New York

1980
Platinum palladium print, printed 1981.
11 1/8 x 19 1/8 in. (28.3 x 48.6 cm)
Signed, titled, dated, numbered 15/69, annotated in pencil, copyright credit and edition stamps on the reverse of the aluminum flush-mount.

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for $25,000

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New York Auction 14 October 2020