Irving Penn
John Cage
1946 (negative), 2002 (print)
Image: 9 9/16 x 7 5/8 inches (24.3 x 19.4 cm); sheet: 9 15/16 x 7 15/16 inches (25.2 x 20.2 cm)
Gelatin silver print on paper, selenium toned
Gift of Irving Penn.
2007.8
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Edition of 10. Identified by the artist as version B among his portraits of John Cage.
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Recto: printed in white from the negative, upper right: [illegible] 47 P-22. Verso: signed in graphite and stamped in black ink, lower left [encircled]: Irving Penn / IRVING PENN; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, upper left: REF. 20812; inscribed in graphite, upper center [in rectangular border]: JOHN CAGE B ['B' encircled] / NEW YORK, OCT. 4, 1946; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, center: PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 2002 by Irving Penn / Courtesy of Vogue / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / photographer.; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, lower right: SIGNED, SILVER PRINTS OF / THIS NEGATIVE NOT EXCEEDING 10. / I.P.; inscribed in graphite, lower left [below artist's signature]: Print made June 2002 / I.P.; stamped in black ink, lower left: TONED IN: SELENIUM.
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Irving Penn.
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