Feb 25, 2016 - Sale 2406

Sale 2406 - Lot 112

Price Realized: $ 8,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Egg Seller with His Son, Cuzco. Silver print, 8x7 1/4 inches (20.3x18.4 cm.), on a mount measuring 14 3/4x10 7/8 inches (37.5x27.6 cm.), with a numeric notation, in ink, in an unknown hand, and Photograph by Penn and Condé Nast Publications copyright hand stamps, on mount verso. 1948

Additional Details

From Lee Marks Fine Art, New York, New York; to the Forbes Collection, 1981.

Exhibited in Detached Realism: The Work of Claudio Bravo and Irving Penn, The Forbes Galleries, February 6-June 1, 1990; Irving Penn: A Collection, The Forbes Galleries, New York, September 12, 2009-February 6, 2010; Irving Penn, The Forbes Galleries, New York, October 22, 2012-November 4, 2013.

Penn, Passage: A Work Record, p. 62.