Live Auction 11950Photographs
Irving Penn (1917-2009)
Lot 188 Property from a Private Southern Collection

Irving Penn (1917-2009)

Gisele, New York, April, 1999

Closed6 April 2016

Price Realised

USD 137,000

Considering selling a similar item?

Discover its value with a complimentary estimate from our specialists.

More Information

How to sell

Irving Penn (1917-2009)
Gisele, New York, April, 1999
selenium toned gelatin silver print
signed, titled, dated, and variously annotated in pencil with Penn/Condé Nast copyright credit and edition stamps (verso)
image: 15 ½ x 15 ½ in. (39.4 x 39.4 cm.)
sheet: 17 1/8 x 16 in. (43.4 x 40.6 cm.)
Please note this work is from the edition of 20.

Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, 2008.

Specialist note

Liberman said to me, 'I must cut back on the work you do for Vogue. The editors don't like it. They say the photographs burn on the page.’ After some years, I began to understand that what they wanted of me was simply a nice, sweet, clean-looking image of a lovely young woman.

Irving Penn