Live Auction 2397Three Decades with Irving Penn: Photographs from the Collection of Patricia McCabe
Christie’s roundel
Lot 33

IRVING PENN (1917-2009)

Five Okapa Warriors, New Guinea, 1970

Closed14 April 2010

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USD 47,500

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IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Five Okapa Warriors, New Guinea, 1970
platinum-palladium print, printed 1973
signed, initialed, titled, dated, numbered '25/35', 'P 1078', inscribed 'For Patricia McCabe', annotated 'experimental print platinum W.T. paper' in pencil and Penn/Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps (on the verso)
19¾ x 19½in. (50.8 x 50cm.)

Specialist note

Although a stamp exists stating that there is an additional edition of prints of this image in gelatin silver, Penn has not noted the number and therefore, presumably, none were realized.