Lot Essay
The photographer has annotated the verso of the flush-mount stating 'signed prints of this photograph not exceeding 23'.
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After Dinner Games, New York, 1947
Details
IRVING PENN (b.1917)
After Dinner Games, New York, 1947
dye-transfer print, printed 1959-1960
signed, initialed, titled, dated, in ink, Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation stamp (on the reverse of the flush-mount)
37 x 30 5/8in. (94 x 77.7cm.)
After Dinner Games, New York, 1947
dye-transfer print, printed 1959-1960
signed, initialed, titled, dated, in ink, Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation stamp (on the reverse of the flush-mount)
37 x 30 5/8in. (94 x 77.7cm.)
Provenance
With Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
Literature
Liberman, ed., The Art and Technique of Color Photography, Simon and Schuster, 1951, p. 6; Penn, Moments Preserved, Simon and Schuster, 1960, p. 116; Szarkowski, Irving Penn, Museum of Modern Art, 1984, pl. 69; Penn, Passage: A Work Record, Knopf/Callaway, 1991, p. 29; Westerbeck, ed., Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, Art Institute of Chicago/Little, Brown and Co., 1997, pl. 58, p. 108