Oct 15, 2015 - Sale 2393

Sale 2393 - Lot 179

Price Realized: $ 10,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
PENN, IRVING (1917-2009)
"Colette, Paris." Silver print, 15 inches (38.1 cm.) square, with Penn's signature, in pencil, on mount recto, and with a typed Condé Nast copyright label, with Penn's credit, title, and date, on mount verso. 1951; printed later

Additional Details

From the Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York; to the Forbes Collection, 1984.

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

Penn, Moments Preserved, p. 22-23; Szarkowski, Irving Penn, 1984, pl. 35; Penn, Passage: A Work Record, p. 111; Westerbeck, ed., Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, 1997, p. 156.