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IRVING PENN (1917–2009)
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IRVING PENN (1917–2009)

Woman in Moroccan Palace (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn), Marrakech, 1951

Closed5 October 2018

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IRVING PENN (1917–2009)
Woman in Moroccan Palace (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn), Marrakech, 1951
platinum-palladium print, mounted on aluminum, printed 1983
signed, titled, date of image and of print, numbered '21/40' and annotated in pencil with stamped photographer's/Condé Nast copyright credit and edition information (flush mount, verso)
image: 19 ¾ x 19 5/8 in. (50.2 x 49.9 cm.)
sheet: 24 7/8 x 21 1/8 in. (63.2 x 53.6 cm.)
mount: 26 x 21 1/8 in. (66 x 53.6 cm.)
This work is number twenty-one from an edition of forty.

Specialist note

The Penns represented an extraordinary relationship between a photographer and a model. She was the inspiration and subject of some of Penn's greatest photographs […] She epitomized a very noble period of fashion and couture. She gave a classical dignity to anything she wore. –Alexander Liberman