Irving Penn
Colette
1951 (negative).
Image and sheet: 15 3/16 x 15 1/16 inches (38.6 x 38.3 cm); Mount: 16 15/16 x 17 1/8 inches (43 x 43.5 cm)
Gelatin silver print on paper; mounted to cardstock.
Gift of Irving Penn, 2006.
2007.55
Notes
Edition of 25. Date of print unknown. In an electronic mail message dated July 19, 2007, Kimberly Jones of the Pace/MacGill Gallery explained that the stamp mark 'REPRODUCTION PRINT' on the mount verso indicates that this print was sent out for use in a publication.
Inscriptions/Markings
Verso of mount: signed and stamped in gray ink, center right [encircled]: Irving Penn / IRVING PENN; inscribed in graphite, upper right: a g.; stamped in black ink, upper center: REPRODUCTION / PRINT; inscribed in black ink, upper left: REF: 12829; inscribed in black ink, center right [in rectangular border]: COLETTE / PARIS, 1951; stamped and inscribed in black ink, center: PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / COPYRIGHT © 1954 by / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS LTD. / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright owner.; stamped in gray ink and inscribed in black ink, center right: SIGNED, SILVER PRINTS OF / THIS NEGATIVE NOT EXCEEDING 25. / I.P.; stamped twice in gray ink, center left: HYPO ELIMINATED.
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Irving Penn.
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