Irving Penn - Photographs London Tuesday, November 21, 2023 | Phillips
  • Literature

    Still Life: Irving Penn, Boston: Bulfinch, 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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Lot offered with No Reserve

Pear with Seeds (A), New York

1993
Platinum-palladium print, mounted.
28 x 50.5 cm (11 x 19 7/8 in.)
Signed, initialled twice, titled, dated, numbered 12/13 and annotated in pencil, copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps on the reverse of the mount.

Estimate
£6,000 - 8,000 

Sold for £9,525

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London Auction 21 November 2023