Irving Penn
'Mermaid Dress (Rochas), Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn'
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October 23, 06:26 PM GMT
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60,000 - 90,000 USD
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55,000 USD
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Irving Penn
1917 - 2009
‘Mermaid Dress (Rochas), Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn’
platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted to aluminum, signed, titled, dated, editioned ‘20/25,’ and annotated in pencil and stamped on the reverse, framed, a Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, label on the reverse
image: 19½ by 19⅝ in. (49.5 by 49.8 cm.)
frame: 29¼ by 30 in. (74.3 by 76.2 cm.)
Executed in 1950, printed in 1980.
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Acquired from the above in 1986 by the present owner
“Paris Collection,” Vogue, 15 September 1950, p. 134
Irving Penn, Moments Preserved (New York, 1960), p. 27
John Szarkowski, Irving Penn (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1984), pl. 58
Irving Penn, Passage: A Work Record (New York, 1991), p. 81
Merry Foresta and Will Stapp, Irving Penn: Master Images (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1990), pl. 28
Colin Westerbeck, ed., Irving Penn: A Career in Photography (The Art Institute of Chicago, 1997), p. 165 and 179
Sarah Greenough, Irving Penn: Platinum Prints (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2005), fig. 3 and pl. 22
Maria Morris Hambourg and Jeff Rosenheim, Irving Penn: Centennial (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2017), pl. 41
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