Irving Penn
Alberto Giacometti
1950 (negative), 1983 (print)
Image: 10 15/16 x 10 5/8 inches (27.8 x 27 cm); Sheet: 13 7/8 x 10 15/16 inches (35.3 x 27.8 cm)
Gelatin silver print on paper, selenium toned.
Gift of Irving Penn, 2006.
2007.15
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Edition of 20.
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Verso: signed in graphite and stamped in black ink, center right [encircled]: Irving Penn / IRVING PENN; inscribed in graphite, upper left: AG20; inscribed in black ink, upper right: MM; inscribed in graphite, upper center [in rectangular border]: GIACOMETTI / (PARIS 1950); stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, upper left: REF. 12477; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, center: PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / COPYRIGHT © 1951. RENEWED 1979 by / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS INC. / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright owner.; inscribed in graphite, center: Print made 1983.; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, center right: SIGNED, SILVER PRINTS OF / THIS NEGATIVE NOT EXCEEDING 20; stamped in black ink, center right: TONED IN SELENIUM.
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Irving Penn.
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