Irving Penn - Photographs London Wednesday, May 20, 2015 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Private Collection, Europe

  • Literature

    I. Penn, Flowers, London: Cape, 1980, back cover and p. 91
    I. Penn, Still Life, Boston: Bulfinch Press, 2001, n.p.

  • 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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19

Tuberous Begonia, New York

1973
Pigment print, printed 2007.
42.5 x 52.5 cm (16 3/4 x 20 5/8 in.)
Signed, initialled, titled, dated in ink, copyright credit (courtesy Vogue) reproduction limitation, credit and edition stamps on the reverse of the flush-mount. One from an edition of 12.

Estimate
£30,000 - 40,000 

Sold for £45,000

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