IRVING PENN (1917-2009) Blast. Platinum-palladium print flush mounted to aluminum, the image measuring 11 1/8x19 1/4 inches (28.3x48.9 cm.), the sheet 16x24 inches (40.6x61 cm.), with Penn's signature in pencil and his copyright stamp, title, negative and print dates, and edition notation 41/44 in pencil, and two additional stamps, one with edition information and one "hand-coated by the photographer" on mount verso. 1980; printed 1981
Provenance: Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York; to the Present Owner
Literature: John Szarkowski, Irving Penn (New York: Museum of Modern Art/New York Graphic Society Books, 1984), pl. 154 Nicholas Callaway (ed.), Irving Penn: Passage: A Work Record (New York: Knopf/Callaway, 1991), p. 234
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