IRVING PENN (b.1917)
Picasso (A), Cannes, France, 1957
gelatin silver print, printed before 1965
signed, initialed, titled, dated in ink, 'Condé Nast' copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps (on the reverse of the mount)
22¾ x 22½ (57.8 x 56.9cm.)
Provenance
With Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
Literature
Penn, Moments Preserved, Simon and Schuster, 1960, p. 39; Szarkowski, Irving Penn, Museum of Modern Art, 1984, fig. 17, p. 27; Penn, Passage: A Work Record, Knopf/Callaway, 1991, p. 125; Irving Penn: Photographs, Wildenstein Tokyo, 1997, cat. no. 9, p. 21; Westerbeck, ed., Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, Art Institute of Chicago/Little, Brown and Co., 1997, pl. 64, p. 114
Lot Essay
Printed before 1965, the photographer has stamped and annotated the verso of the mount stating 'signed, silver prints of this negative not exceeding 30'.
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