Irving Penn
Philip Roth
1983 (negative), 1983 (print)
Image: 10 11/16 x 10 9/16 inches (27.1 x 26.9 cm); Sheet: 13 15/16 x 10 15/16 inches (35.4 x 27.7 cm)
Gelatin silver print on paper, selenium toned.
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.
2007.27
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Edition of 8.
The artist identifies this image as number 1 out of 2 portraits he made of Philip Roth.
The artist identifies this image as number 1 out of 2 portraits he made of Philip Roth.
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Verso: signed in graphite and stamped in black ink, center [encircled]: Irving Penn / IRVING PENN; inscribed in graphite, upper left: PR6; inscribed in graphite, upper right: RM; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, upper left: REF. 12350; inscribed in graphite, upper center [in rectangular border]: PHILIP ROTH / (NEW YORK, 1983); stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, center: PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1983 by / THE CONDE NASTE PUBLICATIONS INC. / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright owner.; stamped in black ink, center right: TONED IN SELENIUM; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, center right: SIGNED, SILVER PRINTS OF / THIS NEGATIVE NOT EXCEEDING 8.; inscribed in graphite, center left [below artist's signature]: Print made 1983. / I.P.
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