IRVING PENN (b. 1917)
IRVING PENN (b. 1917)

Mrs. William Rhinelander Stewart, New York, May 20, 1948

Details
IRVING PENN (b. 1917)
Mrs. William Rhinelander Stewart, New York, May 20, 1948
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1948
signed, initialed, titled, dated in ink, 'Condé Nast' copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps (on verso)
9 5/8 x 7¾ in. (24.4 x 19.7cm.)
Literature
Wagstaff, A Book of Photographs, Gray Press, 1978, p. 45; Foresta and Stapp, Irving Penn: Master Images, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990, cat. no. 78, p. 114; Penn Passage: A Work Record, Alfred A. Knopf/Callaway, 1991, p. 52; Westerbeck, ed., Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, Art Institute of Chicago/Little, Brown and Co., 1997, fig. 5, p. 14

Lot Essay

The photographer has stamped and annotated the verso of the print stating 'Print made near to date of photographic sitting. Signed, silver prints of this negative not exceeding 20'.

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