Live Auction 2397Three Decades with Irving Penn: Photographs from the Collection of Patricia McCabe
Christie’s roundel
Lot 5 I can claim no special knowledge of horticulture that the reader might believe he has a right to expect of someone making a book of flowers. I even confess to enjoying that ignorance since it has left me free to react with simple pleasure just to form and colour.
Irving Penn

IRVING PENN (1917-2009)

Poppy, Glowing Embers (New York), 1968

Closed14 April 2010

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IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Poppy, Glowing Embers (New York), 1968
dye-transfer print, printed 1989
signed, initialed, titled, dated, numbered '15546', inscribed 'Merry Christmas with love to Pat, 1989', Vogue credit in pencil, Penn/Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps (on the reverse of the flush-mount); one of an edition of 19
17 5/8 x 21 7/8in. (45.2 x 56cm.)