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Paul Cadmus

Irving Penn

Paul Cadmus

1946 (negative), ca. 1946 (print)
Image and sheet: 7 7/16 x 7 1/6 inches (18.9 x 17.9 cm); mount: 14 1/16 x 10 15/16 inches (35.7 x 27.8 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.

2007.24
Notes
Edition of 6.
Mount manufactured by Bainbridge Kromo-Lite.
The artist identifies this image as number 1 out of 2 portraits that he made of Cadmus.
Inscriptions/Markings
Verso of mount: signed and stamped in black ink, center [encircled]: Irving Penn / IRVING PENN; inscribed in black ink, upper right: 13392 P-13; inscribed in graphite, upper right: NP; stamped in black ink, upper right: [3 stars]; stamped and inscribed in black ink, upper left: REF. 1180; inscribed in black ink, upper center [in rectangular border]: PAUL CADMUS / NEW YORK, DEC. 4, 1946; inscribed in black ink, center: CADMUS; inscribed in black ink, center: Print made near to date of / photographic sitting. / I.P.; stamped in black ink, center: COPYRIGHT / NOT TO BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT / WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM / THE CONDÉ NAST PUBLICATIONS, INC.; stamped in black ink, lower center: PHOTOGRAPH / BY / PENN; stamped and inscribed in black ink, lower 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, center right: SIGNED, SILVER PRINTS OF / THIS NEGATIVE NOT EXCEEDING 6.; printed in black ink, center left [sideways]: BAINBRIDGE / Kromo-Lite / LICENSED / BOARD / Adapted for Kromo-Lite Process / 20x30 22x30 30x40 / SINGLE THICK DOUBLE THICK / CHAS. T. BAINBRIDGE'S SONS / 20 CUMBERLAND ST. BROOKLYN, N.Y.
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Irving Penn.
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