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IRVING PENN (1917–2009)

Nude 150, 1949-1950
platinum-palladium print, printed 1973
signed, titled, dated [with print date], and numbered '29/57' and 'P 1069' in pencil, stamped photographer's copyright credit and reproduction limitation with edition information (verso)
This work is number twenty-nine from an edition of fifty-seven.
Provenance
Pace MacGill Gallery, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
John Szarkowski, Irving Penn, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984, (variant).
Exhibition Catalogue, Irving Penn: Master Images, Smithsonian Institute Press, Washington, D.C., 1990, pl. 18, p.31.
Irving Penn, Passage: A Work Record, Knopf, New York, 1991, p. 66, (variant).
Exhibition Catalogue, Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1997, pl. 27-28, pp. 76-77 (variants).
Merry A. Foresta, Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2015, pl. 74, p. 116.
Exhibition Catalogue, Irving Penn: Centennial, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2017, pl. 84-85, pp. 164-165, (variants).
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