Irving Penn - Photographs New York Tuesday, October 3, 2017 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    David Mancini Gallery, Philadelphia

  • Literature

    Greenough, Irving Penn: Platinum Prints, pl. 28
    Hambourg and Rosenheim, Irving Penn: Centennial, fig. 13, variant cropping
    Heckert and Lacoste, Irving Penn: Small Trades, pl. 67, fig, 9
    Penn, Moments Preserved, p. 165
    Penn, Passage: A Work Record, p. 93
    Szarkowski, Irving Penn, pl. 90

  • Catalogue Essay

    A true legend, Irving Penn transformed twentieth-century studio photography. Working across numerous photographic processes, diverse cultures, and distinctive subjects, each and every photograph by Penn is rendered with elegant simplicity and supreme beauty. We are delighted this season to offer an exciting selection of works by Irving Penn that pay homage to his brilliance, range, and unwavering vision. Featuring Small Trades, Vogue editorials, still-lifes, and arresting portraits, this selection spans just over 50 years of Penn’s career and includes photographs taken in New York, Paris, Cannes, Morocco, and New Guinea. Masterfully employing several photographic mediums throughout his lifetime, Penn was an exquisite printmaker, a fact reflected in the diversity of mediums on offer here, including; platinum palladium, gelatin silver, dye destruction, and Fujicolor Crystal Archive.

    For additional works by Irving Penn, see lots 241, 311-314, 317, 350, and 351.

  • 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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298

Sculptor's Model, Paris

1950
Platinum palladium print, printed 1976.
16 3/8 x 11 3/4 in. (41.6 x 29.8 cm)
Signed, titled, dated, initialed, numbered 29/35 and annotated in pencil, Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps on the verso.

Estimate
$10,000 - 15,000 

Sold for $20,000

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New York 3 October 2017