IRVING PENN (1917-2009)

Five Okapa Warriors, New Guinea, 1970

Details

IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Five Okapa Warriors, New Guinea, 1970
platinum-palladium print, printed 1973
signed, initialed, titled, dated, numbered '25/35', 'P 1078', inscribed 'For Patricia McCabe', annotated 'experimental print platinum W.T. paper' in pencil and Penn/Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps (on the verso)
19¾ x 19½in. (50.8 x 50cm.)

Literature

Penn, Worlds in a Small Room, Grossman, 1974, p. 77; Irving Penn photographs in platinum metals - images 1947-1975, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd, 1977, cat. no. 109; Szarkowski, Irving Penn, The Museum of Modern Art, 1984, pl. 111; Penn, Passage: A Work Record, Alfred A. Knopf Callaway, 1991, p. 190

Further details

Irving Penn describes this group as 'Okapa warriors, men who seem to have just emerged from the Stone Age. They are renowned as warriors.' (Worlds in a Small Room, p. 76)

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Descrizione dettagliata lotto

Although a stamp exists stating that there is an additional edition of prints of this image in gelatin silver, Penn has not noted the number and therefore, presumably, none were realized.

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