Lot Essay
The photographer has stamped and annotated the reverse of the mount stating 'signed, silver prints of this negative not exceeding 19. Print made near to date of photograph.'
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Girl in Bed on Telephone (Jean Patchett), New York, 1949
Details
IRVING PENN (b. 1917)
Girl in Bed on Telephone (Jean Patchett), New York, 1949
gelatin silver print
signed, initialed, titled, dated, typed Vogue label, edition and 'Condé Nast' copyright credit reproduction limitation stamps (on the reverse of the mount)
19 3/8 x 15in. (49.2 x 38.1cm.)
Girl in Bed on Telephone (Jean Patchett), New York, 1949
gelatin silver print
signed, initialed, titled, dated, typed Vogue label, edition and 'Condé Nast' copyright credit reproduction limitation stamps (on the reverse of the mount)
19 3/8 x 15in. (49.2 x 38.1cm.)
Provenance
With Hamiltons, London
Literature
Vogue, June 1950; Penn, Moments Preserved, Simon and Schuster, 1960, p. 125; Devlin, Vogue Book of Fashion Photography, Simon and Schuster, 1979, p. 110; Penn, Passage: A Work Record, Knopf/Callaway, 1991, p. 78