Lot Essay
Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn models a pleated chiffon evening dress by Lafaurie.
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Woman with Roses (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn), 1950
Details
IRVING PENN (b.1917)
Woman with Roses (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn), 1950
platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted on aluminum, printed 1979
signed, titled, dated, numbered '10/40' in pencil, 'Condé Nast' copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps (on the reverse of the flush-mount)
21 5/8 x 14 5/8in. (54.9 x 37.2cm.)
Woman with Roses (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn), 1950
platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted on aluminum, printed 1979
signed, titled, dated, numbered '10/40' in pencil, 'Condé Nast' copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps (on the reverse of the flush-mount)
21 5/8 x 14 5/8in. (54.9 x 37.2cm.)
Provenance
With Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
Literature
Vogue, September 15, 1950; Szarkowski, Irving Penn, Museum of Modern Art, 1984, pl. 54; Penn, Passage: A Work Record, Knopf/Callaway, 1991, p. 85; Fraser, On The Edge: Images from 100 Years of Vogue, Random House, 1992, p. 10; Westerbeck, ed., Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, Art Institute of Chicago/Little, Brown and Co., 1997, pl. 35, p. 84 and contact sheet fig. 4, p. 165