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IRVING PENN (B. 1917)
- Cuzco Children, 1948

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IRVING PENN (B. 1917)
Cuzco Children, 1948
Price Realized
(Set Currency)
  • $529,000
  • Price includes buyer's premium
Estimate
    $250,000 - $350,000

Sale Information

Sale 1985
Photographs
11 April 2008
New York, Rockefeller Plaza





Lot Description

IRVING PENN (B. 1917)
Cuzco Children, 1948
platinum-palladium print, printed 1971
signed, numbered '16/60' in pencil, typed 'Condé Nast' copyright credit reproduction label affixed and edition stamp (on the reverse of the flush-mount)
19 1/8 x 19¾in. (48.6 x 50.2cm.)

Provenance

With Marlborough Gallery, New York

Literature

Penn, Moments Preserved, Simon & Schuster, 1960, p. 98; Penn, Worlds in a Small World, Grossman, 1974, p. 13; Szarkowski, Irving Penn, Museum of Modern Art, 1984, pl. 59; Penn, Passage: A Work Record, Knopf/Callaway, 1991, p. 61; Fraser, On the Edge: Images From 100 Years of Vogue, Random House, 1992, p. 79; Westerbeck, ed., Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, Art Institute of Chicago/Little, Brown and Co., 1997, cat no. 37, p. 177

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