Vente aux enchères en direct 2397Three Decades with Irving Penn: Photographs from the Collection of Patricia McCabe
Lot 54

IRVING PENN (1917-2009)

Augustus John, 1958

Fermé14 April 2010

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USD 15,000

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IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Augustus John, 1958
platinum-palladium print, printed 1976
signed, initialed, titled, dated, numbered '6/35', 'P 236', inscribed 'For Pat, Merry Christmas' in pencil and Penn/Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps (on the verso)
19 1/8 x 19in. (48.9 x 48.5cm.)

Note du spécialiste

Born in Tenby, England in 1878, Augustus John studied at the Slade School in London (1894-99). A fiery individualist, he was described by his friend, the painter Wyndham Lewis, as 'a great man of action in whose hands the fairies had placed a paintbrush instead of a sword'.

By the 1920s, John was Britain's leading portrait painter.