Irving Penn
Barnett Newman
1966 (negative), 1998 (print)
Image: 14 9/16 x 14 1/2 inches (37 x 36.9 cm); Sheet: 19 3/4 x 15 15/16 inches (50.2 x 40.5 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.
2007.52
Notes
Edition of 10. The artist identifies this as version B among his portraits of Barnett Newman.
Inscriptions/Markings
Verso: signed in graphite and stamped in black ink, center: Irving Penn / IRVING PENN; inscribed in graphite, upper left: 5 / PDH; stamped and inscribed in graphite, upper left: REF. 18249; inscribed in graphite, upper center [in rectangular border]: BARNETT NEWMAN (B) / (NEW YORK, JAN. 14, 1966); inscribed in graphite, upper center: Print made August 1998. / I.P.; stamped and inscribed in graphite, lower right: PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / COPYRIGHT © 1966 by Irving Penn / courtesy of Vogue / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of / photographer.; stamped in black ink, lower right: HYPO ELIMINATED; stamped and inscribed in graphite, lower right: In addition to 10 signed SILVER / prints of this image there are also 20 / signed, numbered platinum-palladium prints / I.P.; stamped in black ink, lower center: TONED IN: SELENIUM.
Provenance
Irving Penn.
Catalog link
Artist
Century
Department