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Irving Penn (1917-2009); 'Cuzco Children, Peru, Dec. 1948'; image 1
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Lot 51

Irving Penn
(1917-2009)
'Cuzco Children, Peru, Dec. 1948'

7 – 17 July 2025, 12:00 EDT
Online, New York

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Irving Penn (1917-2009)

'Cuzco Children, Peru, Dec. 1948', 1948
Gelatin silver print, printed before 1975; signed, initialed, titled, dated, and annotated 'Print made before 1975' in ink, the photographer's credit, 'The Condé Nast Publications' copyright/reproduction rights, and edition information stamps, all on the reverse, framed, an Andrew Smith Gallery label on the reverse; this work is one from an edition of 30.
15 x 13 3/8 in. (38.1 x 34 cm.)
sheet 17 x 14 in. (43.2 x 35.5 cm.)

Footnotes

Provenance
Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, 2000
Private Collection
Thence by descent to the present owner

Literature
Irving Penn, Moments Preserved (New York, 1960), pp. 98-9
Irving Penn, Irving Penn: Photographs in Platinum Metals Images 1947-1975 (New York, 1977), n.p.
John Szarkowski, Irving Penn (New York, 1984), p. 59
Irving Penn, Worlds in a Small Room (New York, 1984), p. 13
Irving Penn, Passage: A Work Record (New York, 1991), p. 61
Colin Westerbeck, Irving Penn: A Career in Photography (Chicago, 1997), p. 177
Irving Penn, A Notebook at Random (New York, 2004), pp. 90-91
Sarah Greenberg, Irving Penn: Platinum Prints (Washington D.C., 2005), pl. 15

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