Irving Penn (American, born 1917); Woman in Moroccan Palace (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn), Marrakech;
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Irving Penn (American, born 1917)
Woman in Moroccan Palace (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn), Marrakech, 1951
Platinum-palladium print, printed 1983, flush-mounted on aluminum, signed, titled, dated, edition numbered 13/40 in pencil, Penn-Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps on verso of the flush-mount, framed.
19 3/4 x 19 5/8in
Sold for US$ 300,000 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • Provenance:
    Acquired by the present owner from the Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto, 1991

    Literature:
    Irving Penn, Moments Preserved, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1960, p. 67
    Colin Westerbeck, ed., Art Institute of Chicago/Little, Brown and Co., 1997, p. 73, pl. 24
    Merry A. Foresta and William F. Stapp, Irving Penn: Master Images, The Collections of the National Museum of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 1990, p. 42, cat. no. 29, and front cover
    Irving Penn, Passage: A Work Record, Knopf/Callaway, New York, 1991, p. 102
    Irving Penn: Collection Priveé, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Fribourg, 1994, p. 53, cat. no. 32
    Irving Penn, A Notebook at Random, New York, p. 103

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