Lot Description

IRVING PENN (b. 1917)
Girl in Bed on Telephone (Jean Patchett), New York, 1949
gelatin silver print
signed, initialed, titled, dated, typed Vogue label, edition and 'Condé Nast' copyright credit reproduction limitation stamps (on the reverse of the mount)
19 3/8 x 15in. (49.2 x 38.1cm.)

Provenance

With Hamiltons, London

Literature

Vogue, June 1950; Penn, Moments Preserved, Simon and Schuster, 1960, p. 125; Devlin, Vogue Book of Fashion Photography, Simon and Schuster, 1979, p. 110; Penn, Passage: A Work Record, Knopf/Callaway, 1991, p. 78

Lot Notes

The photographer has stamped and annotated the reverse of the mount stating 'signed, silver prints of this negative not exceeding 19. Print made near to date of photograph.'