IRVING PENN (b.1917)
Cuzco Children, Peru, 1948
gelatin silver print, printed 1984
signed, initialed, titled, dated, in ink, 'Condé Nast' copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps (on the reverse of the mount)
19 5/8 x 20 5/8in. (49.9 x 52.3cm.)
Provenance
With Pace/MacGill 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
Lot Essay
The photographer has stamped and annotated the reverse of the mount stating that 'signed, silver prints of this negative not exceeding 30'.
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