Père Couturier, Paris, 26 July 1948

Details

IRVING PENN
Père Couturier, Paris, 26 July 1948
gelatin silver print, printed 'c.1948'
signed, initialled, titled, dated and numbered '9378' in pencil/ink, 'Penn/Condé Nast' copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps on reverse of mount
11 7/8 x 9in. (29 x 23cm.)

Literature

Penn, Moments Preserved, Simon & Schuster, 1960, p.29; Foresta & Stapp, Irving Penn: Master Images, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 1990, p.21, pl.8; Penn, Passage: A Work Record, Jonathan Cape, 1991, p.45.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The photographer has stamped and annotated the reverse of the mount stating 'signed, silver prints of this negative not exceeding 31.'

Penn wrote: 'Père Couturier's ascetic head and severe unbending figure made a curiously familiar sight in fashionable Paris salons....A member of the Dominican order, he posed for the sketches of St. Dominic in the Matisse chapel at Vence. For this portrait, he posed in the dark basement of a Paris convent.' (Moments Preserved, p.29)

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