Irving Penn
George Grosz
1948 (negative), ca. 1948 (print)
Image and sheet: 9 1/8 x 7 inches (23.2 x 17.8 cm); mount: 14 x 10 15/16 inches (35.6 x 27.7 cm)
Gelatin silver print on paper; mounted to cardstock.
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.
2007.20
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Edition of 21.
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Verso of mount: signed and stamped in black ink, lower left [encircled]: Irving Penn / IRVING PENN; inscribed in black ink, upper right: 15799 P-17; inscribed in graphite, upper right: RS; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, upper left: REF. 1433; inscribed in black ink, upper center [in rectangular border]: George Grosz; stamped in black ink, center: COPYRIGHT / NOT TO BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT / WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM / THE CONDÉ NAST PUBLICATIONS, INC.; stamped in black ink, center: PHOTOGRAPH / BY / PENN; stamped and inscribed in black ink, center right: SIGNED, SILVER PRINTS OF / THIS NEGATIVE NOT EXCEEDING 21.; stamped and inscribed in black ink, lower center: PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1983 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, lower center: Photographed in New York / March 4, 1948. / Print made near to date of photograph. / I.P.
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