Irving Penn
Louise Bourgeois
1992 (negative), 1992 (print)
Image: 10 7/16 x 10 3/8 inches (26.5 x 26.4 cm); Sheet: 11 3/16 x 10 15/16 inches (28.4 x 27.8 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.
2007.42
Notes
Edition of 4. The artist identifies this image as version A among his portraits of Louise Bourgeois from this sitting.
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Verso: signed in graphite and stamped in black ink, center [encircled]: Irving Penn / IRVING PENN; inscribed in graphite, upper right: RM; inscribed in graphite, upper left: REF: 17006; inscribed in graphite, center [in rectangular border]: LOUISE BOURGEOIS B ['B' encircled] / (NEW YORK, 1992); stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, center: PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / COPYRIGHT © 1992 by IRVING PENN, CARE OF / HOUSE & GARDEN / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of / photographer.; inscribed in graphite, lower center [below artist's signature]: Print made 1992. / I.P.; stamped in black ink, lower center: TONED IN SELENIUM; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, lower right: SIGNED, SILVER PRINTS OF / THIS NEGATIVE NOT EXCEEDING 4. / I.P..
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