Private Collection, Japan
Irving Penn, Recent Still Life: Negatives 1979-1980, Prints in Platinum Metals 1980-1982, exh. cat., New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1982, cover
I. Penn, Passage: A Work Record, New York: Knopf, 1991, p. 228
S. Greenough, Irving Penn: Platinum Prints, Washington: National Gallery of Art/ New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005, p. 79
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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