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Vionnet Dress with Fan (1925–26), New York

A work made of platinum-palladium print.
Copyright The Irving Penn Foundation

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  • A work made of platinum-palladium print.

Date:

1974, printed January 1979

Artist:

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Irving Penn

Title

Vionnet Dress with Fan (1925–26), New York

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

Made 1974

Medium

Platinum-palladium print

Edition

22 of 37

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso: “1791 / .. [in a circle]”; inscribed verso: “VIONNET DRESS WITH FAN [in a box]”; inscribed verso: “Rives Paper on Aluminum / Multiple Coating and Printing / 1 [in a circle] Platinum-palladium / 2 [in a circle] Platinum-palladium / Print made January 1979”; stamped verso: “Deacidified”; inscribed verso: “22/37”; stamped and inscribed verso: “PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1977 by / IRVING PENN / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / photographer.”; signed and stamped verso: “Irving Penn / Hand-coated by the photographer”; stamped and inscribed verso: “In addition to 37 numbered prints of this image / in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver / prints not exceeding a total of 45 may exist.”

Dimensions

Image: 53.4 × 49.8 cm (21 1/16 × 19 5/8 in.); Paper: 63 × 56.2 cm (24 13/16 × 22 3/16 in.); Mount: 64.4 × 56.2 cm (25 3/8 × 22 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Alexander Liberman

Reference Number

1985.916

Copyright

Copyright The Irving Penn Foundation

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