Lot Essay
The photographer has annotated the verso of each part stating that 'no more than 70 original prints of this image will ever be made'. Only 11 in the edition were made as large 4-part prints.
.jpg?w=1)
Cigarette No. 37, 1974
Details
IRVING PENN (b.1917)
Cigarette No. 37, 1974
4-part palladium print, printed 1977
each part signed, initialed, titled, dated, numbered '21/70' in pencil and copyright credit reproduction limitation stamp (on the verso)
the whole 50½ x 40in. (128.2 x 101.6cm.)
Cigarette No. 37, 1974
4-part palladium print, printed 1977
each part signed, initialed, titled, dated, numbered '21/70' in pencil and copyright credit reproduction limitation stamp (on the verso)
the whole 50½ x 40in. (128.2 x 101.6cm.)
Literature
Szarkowski, Irving Penn, Museum of Modern Art, 1984, pl. 118, (printed out on one sheet); Penn, Passage: A Work Record, Knopf/Callaway, 1991, p. 203