Lot 92
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IRVING PENN
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IRVING PENN

Collette, 1960

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IRVING PENN
Collette, 1960
platinum-palladium print, printed March 1978
signed, titled, dated, numbered '1108', '21/50', 'Penn/Condé Nast' copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps on reverse of aluminium flush-mount
19¾ x 19 5/8in. (50.2 x 49.8cm.)
Literature
Penn, Moments Preserved, Simon & Schuster, 1960, p.22; Szarkowski, Irving Penn, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984, pl. 35; Penn, Passage: A Work Record, Jonathan Cape, 1991, p.111; Greenough, Irving Penn: Platinum Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2005, pl.36.
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Lot Essay

Penn wrote: 'Colette spoke passionately of sight, sound, smell, taste, and especially love....She was eighty when [this picture] was taken, some time after she was permanently confined to bed. One foot of the cameraman's tripod stood on the sheet between Colette's immobilized feet, immaculately pedicured with the nails lacquered scarlet.' (Moments Preserved, p.22)

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