Irving Penn
Alexander Calder
1946 (negative), before 1959 (print)
Image: 12 11/16 x 10 9/16 inches (32.2 x 26.9 cm); Sheet: 13 7/8 x 11 inches (35.3 x 28 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.
2007.31
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Edition of 14.
The artist identifies this image as number 1 out of 3 portraits he made of Calder.
The artist identifies this image as number 1 out of 3 portraits he made of Calder.
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Verso: signed and stamped in black ink, center [encircled]: Irving Penn / IRVING PENN; inscribed in graphite, upper right: N P; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, upper left: REF. 2028; inscribed in black ink, upper center [in rectangular border]: ALEXANDER CALDER / CONNECTICUT, DEC 11, 1946; stamped and inscribed in black ink, center: PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1960 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, center: Early print, before 1959. / I.P.; stamped and inscribed in black ink, center right: SIGNED, SILVER PRINTS OF / THIS NEGATIVE NOT EXCEEDING 14.
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