Irving Penn
Man Ray
1957 (negative), 1957 (print)
Image: 7 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches (18.4 x 18.5 cm); sheet: 9 15/16 x 7 15/16 inches (25.2 x 20.2 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.
2007.9
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Edition of 10. Identified by the artist as version C among his portraits of Man Ray.
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Verso: signed and stamped in black ink, lower center [encircled]: Irving Penn / IRVING PENN; inscribed in graphite, upper left: 5770-U-12; inscribed in graphite, upper right: PDH; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, upper left: REF. 6801; inscribed in black ink, upper center [in rectangular border]: MAN RAY (C) / PARIS, NOV. 1957; stamped and inscribed in black ink, 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.; inscribed in black ink and graphite, lower left: Print / made 1957. / I.P.; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, lower right: SIGNED, SILVER PRINTS OF / THIS NEGATIVE NOT EXCEEDING 10. / I.P.
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