Man Lighting Girl's Cigarette (Jean Patchett)

Details

IRVING PENN (BORN 1917)
Man Lighting Girl's Cigarette (Jean Patchett)
Hand-coated, multiple-printed platinum-palladium print mounted on aluminum. 1949/1971. Signed, dated and numbered 5/15 in pencil; Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation label with typed title affixed to the reverse of the mount.
19¼ x 20¼in. (48.8 x 51.5cm.) Framed.

Provenance

With Marlborough Gallery, Inc., New York, 1977.

Literature

See: Szarkowski, Irving Penn, pl. 40; Knopf/Callaway, Passage, p. 72.

Lot Essay

Along with Penn's "Girl in Bed," 1949, which remains in the collection, this print is one of the first two photographs purchased by Alexandra Marshall. Two themes running throughout the collection are "On Women's Lives" and "Rumpled Things" which appear as early as these first works collected.

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