Live Auction 2397Three Decades with Irving Penn: Photographs from the Collection of Patricia McCabe
Christie’s roundel
Lot 11 I myself have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.
Irving Penn

IRVING PENN (1917-2009)

Irving Penn, Self Portrait, New York, 1986

Closed14 April 2010

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IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Irving Penn, Self Portrait, New York, 1986
platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted on aluminum, printed 1990
signed, initialed, titled, dated, numbered 7/16', '3563' in ink, initialed, dated, inscribed 'To Pat, for your rogue's gallery, Christmas 1990' in pencil, copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps (on the reverse of the flush-mount)
19½ x 19 3/8in. (49.5 x 49.8cm.)