Woman in Chicken Hat (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn), New York, 1949

Details

IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Woman in Chicken Hat (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn), New York, 1949
tirage argentique, monté sur support cartonné
signé, titré, daté (image et tirage), numéroté '6' et annoté à l'encre avec cachet de copyright du photographe/Condé Nast et cachet de limitation d'édition (montage, verso)
image/feuille : 38.7 x 36.8 cm. (15 ¼ x 14 ½ in.)
montage : 56 x 53 cm. (22 x 20 7/8 in.)
Ce tirage provient d'une édition de six exemplaires.

Provenance

Hamiltons Gallery, Londres.

Literature

Maria Morris Hambourg et Jeff Rosenheim, Irving Penn Centennial, The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press, New York, Londres, 2017, pl. 47, p. 115.

Special notice

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Further details

GELATIN SILVER PRINT, MOUNTED ON BOARD; SIGNED, TITLED, DATE OF IMAGE AND OF PRINT, NUMBERED '6' AND VARIOUSLY ANNOTATED IN INK WITH STAMPED PHOTOGRAPHER'S/CONDÉ NAST COPYRIGHT CREDIT AND EDITION INFORMATION (MOUNT, VERSO)

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Lot Essay

‘Penn’s private, stubborn, artistic visions have revised our sense of the world’s content. His essential work is Spartan in its rigor, in its devotion to the sober elegance of clarity, in the high demands it makes of us regarding poise, grace, costume, style...’ John Szarkowski

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