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IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Mailman, 1950
platinum-palladium print, mounted on aluminum, printed 1970
signed, dated [with print date] and numbered '7/8' in pencil, credited, titled, and dated on affixed reproduction limitation label and stamped edition information (mount, verso)
image: 19 1/4 x 14 in. (48.8 x 35.5 cm.)
sheet: 24 x 20 in. (60.9 x 50.8 cm.)
mount: 25 x 20 in. (63.5 x 50.8 cm.)
This work is number seven from an edition of eight.
Provenance
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Irving Penn, Irving Penn: Moments Preserved, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1960, p. 169.
Irving Penn, Irving Penn: Small Trades, The J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2009, pl. 143.
Exhibition Catalogue, Irving Penn: Centennial, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2017, p. 178, pl. 94.
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