IRVING PENN (1917-2009)

The young cricketer in the photograph, Adam Rowntree, was the son of the artist and graphic designer, Kenneth Rowntree, who carried out commissions for Vogue in 1950. That is presumably how Mr Penn's attention was drawn to the young Rowntree as a potential model. The print was most likely made in the Vogue darkroom in New York and mounted on Artmar Illustration board from the very nearby East 49th Street supplier, A.I. Friedman, whose credit is on the reverse.

This exquisitely preserved vintage print of impeccable provenance is sold with the August 1951 edition of Vogue, in which Adam Rowntree appears as part of the feature Young England, p. 63. This lot comes with the original frame designed for it by Mr Kenneth Rowntree in which it hung in the family home for nearly sixty years until Adam and his mother both died in 2008.