Classic Photographs

IRVING PENN | 'TWO GUEDRAS, MOROCCO'

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October 1, 07:42 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

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IRVING PENN

1917-2009

'TWO GUEDRAS, MOROCCO'

gelatin silver print, mounted, signed, titled, dated, and annotated in ink and stamped on the reverse, 1971, printed in 1984, one from an edition of 15

image: 19 by 18⅞ in. (48.3 by 47.9 cm.)

Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, 1985

By descent to the present owner

Irving Penn, Worlds in a Small Room (New York, 1974), cover, frontispiece, and p. 83

Irving Penn: Photographs in Platinum Metals—Images 1947-1975 (Marlborough Gallery, New York, 1977), unpaginated

John Szarkowski, Irving Penn (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1984), pl. 94

Irving Penn, Passage: A Work Record (New York, 1991), p. 199

Sarah Greenough, Irving Penn: Platinum Prints (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2005), pl. 61

Maria Morris Hambourg and Jeff Rosenheim, Irving Penn: Centennial (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2017), pl. 152