
Elixir of Life: Photographs from The Olbricht Collection
Nude 115
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8,000 - 12,000 EUR
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Elixir of Life: Photographs from The Olbricht Collection
Irving Penn
1917 - 2009
Nude 115
gelatin silver print, signed, titled, dated and annotated in pencil, stamped with the photographer's 'Photograph by Irving Penn' and a Condé Nast copyright/reproduction rights stamps on the reverse, framed
image: 15½ by 14⅝ in. (39.4 by 37.2 cm)
frame: 23 by 20½ in. (58.5 by 52 cm.)
Executed in 1949-50.
Christie's New York, 12 October 2005, lot 21
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Leipzig, Museum der bildenden Künste, Nude Visions: 150 Years of Nude Photography, August - November 2010
Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn's Nudes, 1949-50 (New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002), p. 79
This photograph is one of no more than 14 signed gelatin silver prints from this negative. As noted by the photographer in his stamp on the reverse of this photograph, each print differs somewhat from the others.
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