Lot Essay
'I felt I was recording the essence of a complete woman...' - Irving Penn (Appearances, 1991, p. 56)
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Black and White Vogue Cover, 1950
Details
IRVING PENN (b. 1917)
Black and White Vogue Cover, 1950
platinum-palladium print, printed 1968
signed, titled, dated, numbered '3/34', 'Penn/Condé Nast' copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps (on the verso)
18 x 14in. (45.6 x 35.5cm.)
Black and White Vogue Cover, 1950
platinum-palladium print, printed 1968
signed, titled, dated, numbered '3/34', 'Penn/Condé Nast' copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps (on the verso)
18 x 14in. (45.6 x 35.5cm.)
Provenance
With Hamiltons Gallery, London;
to the present owner
to the present owner
Literature
'The Black and White Idea', Vogue, April 1, 1950, front cover; Penn, Moments Preserved, Simon and Schuster, 1960, p. 159; Devlin, Vogue Book of Fashion Photography, Simon and Schuster, 1979, p. 90; Szarkowski, Irving Penn, The Museum of Modern Art, 1984, pl. 48; Bailey and Harrison, Shots of Style: Great Fashion Photographs, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985, cat. no. 130; The Art of Photography, 1839-1989, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston/Yale University Press, 1989; Harrison, Appearances: Fashion Photography Since 1945, Jonathan Cape, 1991, p. 158; Penn, Passage: A Work Record, Knopf/Callaway, 1991, p. 100; Irving Penn: Collection Privée, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Fribourg, 1994, cat. no. 31, p. 51; Westerbeck, ed., Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, Art Institute of Chicago, 1997, pl. 4, p. 28