Irving Penn
W. H. Auden
1947 (negative), ca. 1947 (print)
Image: 9 9/16 x 7 5/8 inches (24.3 x 19.4 cm); sheet: 9 15/16 x 8 inches (25.2 x 20.3 cm)
Gelatin silver print on paper.
Purchased as the gift of Richard L. Menschel and with the support of The Horace W. Goldsmith Fund for Americana and The Margaret T. Morris Fund.
2007.12
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Edition of 51.
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Recto: printed in white from the negative, upper right: 15042 P-11. Verso: signed in graphite and stamped in black ink, lower left [encircled]: Irving Penn / IRVING PENN; inscribed in graphite, upper right: 7 [encircled, sideways] 1p RF; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, upper left: REF. 2357; inscribed in graphite, upper center [in rectangular border]: W. H. AUDEN / NEW YORK, OCT. 16, 1947; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, center: PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1984 by Irving Penn, COURTESY OF VOGUE / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright owner and / THE CONDE NASTE PUBLICATIONS INC.; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, lower right: SIGNED, SILVER PRINTS OF / THIS NEGATIVE NOT EXCEEDING 51.; inscribed in graphite, lower left [below artist's signature]: Print made near to date of / photographic sitting. / I.P.
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