IRVING PENN (1917-2009)

Cecil Beaton

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IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Cecil Beaton
platinum palladium print, flush-mounted on aluminium, printed May-June 1980
signed, titled, dated, numbered '5/15', annotated '2620','Rives paper on aluminium', '(1) Platinum-palladium' '(2) Platinum-palladium' in pencil, stamped 'Deacidified', Penn/Condé Nast copyright, credit, reproduction limitation, and edition stamps (flush mount, verso)
image 15 x 14½in. (38 x 37.8cm.)
sheet/flush mount 24 x 20in. (61 x 50.6cm.)
This print is number 15 from the edition of 15 in platinum metals; an edition of un-numbered gelatin silver prints not exceeding 15 may also exist.

Literature

I.Penn, Moments Preserved, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1960, p. 85;
J.Szarkowski, Irving Penn, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984, p. 21;
I.Penn, Passage -- a work record, Jonathan Cape, London, in association with Callaway, New York, 1991, p. 95.

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Lot Essay

In his Moments Preserved caption, Penn describes Beaton as 'An acute reporter of his time and milieu'.

Gift of an Anonymous donor.

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