Marlborough Gallery, New York
Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, 14 November 2009, lot 222
I. Penn, Worlds in a Small Room, Grossman, 1974, cover and p. 83, variant
J. Szarkowski, Irving Penn, MoMA, 1984, pl. 94
I. Penn, Passage, A Work Record, Knopf, 1991, p. 199, variant
S. Greenough, Irving Penn: Platinum Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington/ Yale, 2005, p.175, pl. 61
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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