Live Auction 16381An American Journey: The Diann G. and Thomas A. Mann Collection of Photographic Masterworks
IRVING PENN (1917–2009)
Lot 57

IRVING PENN (1917–2009)

Frozen Foods, New York, 1977

Closed5 October 2018

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IRVING PENN (1917–2009)
Frozen Foods, New York, 1977
dye transfer print, mounted on board, printed 1984
signed, titled, dated [image and print] and numbered 'REF: 14708' in ink and stamped photographer's/Condé Nast copyright credit and edition information (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 23 1/4 x 18 1/4 in. (59 x 46.3 cm.)
mount: 26 x 21 in. (66 x 53.3 cm.)
This work is from an edition of thirty-three.

Hamiltons Gallery, London;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1993.

Specialist note

…their contrasting textures and vivid colors, enhanced by the sparkling white seamless background paper, and the wit and poise of their compositions, seemed like art, and almost out of place in a magazine. They evoked the still lifes of Chardin and Manet, but were now and new, with a refinement of detail and color that only a camera could manage.
—Roberta Smith, The New York Times