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Irving Penn

Facteur [Mailman], Paris

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

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Irving Penn

1917 - 2009


Facteur [Mailman], Paris

platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted to aluminum, signed twice, dated and editioned 8/8 in pencil, and with the photographer's Photograph by Irving Penn and Conde Nast copyright/reproduction rights stamps on a paper label on the reverse, framed

image: 19 ¼ by 14 ⅛ in. (48.9 by 35.9 cm.)

Executed in 1950, printed in 1970.

Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in 2008 by the present owner

Virginia A. Heckert and Anne Lacoste, Irving Penn: Small Trades, Los Angeles 2009, pl. 143

Maria Morris Hambourg and Jeff L. Rosenheim, Irving Penn: Centennial, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2017, pl. 94