May 21, 2015 - Sale 2385

Sale 2385 - Lot 302

Price Realized: $ 12,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
PENN, IRVING (1917-2009)
"Vionnet Lampshade Dress." Platinum-palladium print, 15x14 3/4 inches (38.1x37.5 cm.), flush mounted to aluminum, with Penn's signature, title, dates, and edition notation 1/15, in pencil, and with his copyright and edition hand stamps, on mount verso. 1977; printed 1978

Additional Details

From the Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York; to the Forbes Collection, in 1980.

This print was exhibited in Detached Realism: The Work of Claudio Bravo and Irving Penn, at The Forbes Galleries, New York, February 6-June 1, 1990; Irving Penn: A Collection, at The Forbes Galleries, New York, September 12, 2009-February 6, 2010; and Irving Penn, at The Forbes Galleries, New York, October 22, 2012-February 6, 2010.

Inventive Paris Clothes 1909-1939, p. 40.

Irving Penn: Platinum Prints, pl. 66.