IRVING PENN (b.1917)
Two Guedras, Morocco, 1971
gelatin silver print, printed 1984
signed, initialed, titled, dated, 'Condé Nast' copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps (on the reverse of the mount)
19 x 18 7/8in. (48.2 x 47.9cm.)
Provenance
With Hamiltons, London
Literature
Penn, Worlds in a Small Room, Grossman, 1974, p. 83 and front cover; Hall-Duncan, The History of Fashion Photography, Alpine Book Co., 1979, p. 155; Szarkowski, Irving Penn, Museum of Modern Art, 1984, pl. 94; The Art of Photography, 1839-1989, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston/Yale University Press, 1989, pl. 442; Penn, Passage: A Work Record, Knopf/Callaway, 1991, p. 199
Lot Essay
The photographer has stamped and annotated the verso of the mount stating 'signed, silver prints of this negative not exceeding 15'.
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