Live Auction 2113Photographs From The Collection Of Gert Elfering
IRVING PENN (B. 1917)
Lot 21 The lipstick on the dead cigarette butt, the beetles, flies, stains, mice, raveled carpets and moldering walls that recur with such frequency in Penn's work might be explained as a quiet dissent from the general model of perfect elegance that prevailed at Vogue during Penn's early years there.
JOHN SZARKOWSKI

IRVING PENN (B. 1917)

Cigarette and Lips, New York, before 1961

Closed10 April 2008

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IRVING PENN (B. 1917)
Cigarette and Lips, New York, before 1961
chromogenic print, printed December 2005
signed, initialed, titled, dated in ink, 'Penn/Condé Nast' copyright credit, reproduction limitation and edition stamps (on the reverse of the flush mount); from an edition of 5
18¾ x 21 7/8in. (47.7 x 55.8cm.)

Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York