Live Auction 14977Photographs Including Property from the Museum of Modern Art
IRVING PENN (1917–2009)
Lot 135 IMPORTANT PHOTOGRAPHS FROM AN AMERICAN COLLECTION

IRVING PENN (1917–2009)

Broken Egg, New York, 1959

Closed10 October 2017

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USD 68,750

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IRVING PENN (1917–2009)
Broken Egg, New York, 1959
dye transfer print, mounted on board
signed and dated '1960' in ink (mount, recto)
image: 22 1/4 x 18 3/4 in. (56.5 x 47.6 cm.)
mount: 28 x 22 in. (71.1 x 55.9 cm.)

Phillips de Pury & Company, London, May 17, 2008, lot 238;
acquired from the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

'[His style] is all rooted in still life, in a genuine sense. It's very carefully balanced, very precise. The other part of it is, is that one of the central issues of his photographs has to do with beauty and the different ways one perceives beauty.'—William Stapp, founding curator of the National Portrait Gallery’s Department of Photographs