About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Photography and Media
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Artist
- Irving Penn
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Title
- Couple Fishing from Bank of Seine, France
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1951
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Medium
- Color pigmentation print on porcelainized steel
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Edition
- of 8
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Inscriptions
- Typed label, verso: Print made on porcelainized steel, hand coated by the photographer. / Pigments used: Pthalocyanine Blue / Ultramarine Blue [crossed out] / Viridian / Terre Verte / Quinacridone Red / Cadmium Red [crossed out] / Burnt Sienna / [illegible yellow pigment; crossed out] / Cadmium Yellow / Cadmium Yellow Deep [crossed out] / [illegible yellow pigment; crossed out ] / Yellow Ochre / Chinese White [crossed out] / Carbon Black [crossed out] / Bone Black [crossed out] / Charcoal Grey ; signed label: Irving Penn [in a circle] Typed and inscribed label, verso: .. / PLATE NO. 47 / COUPLE FISHING FROM BANK OF SEINE [underlined] / (France 1951) / Photograph by Irving Penn / Copyright © 1953 – Renewed 1981 / The Conde Nast Publications Inc. / Not to be reproduced without written / permission of the copyright owner. Inscribed verso: 47 .. Labeled verso: Of this image, the following prints exist: / 5 dye transfer prints / 8 pigment color prints (on porcelainized steel) / 5 pigment color prints (on paper on aluminum) / 15 platinum prints ; inscribed on label: Print made 1968 / Ip ; inscribed label: 6/13 ; signed and stamped label: Irving Penn / IRVING PENN [in a circle]
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Dimensions
- Image: 58.2 × 50.2 cm (22 15/16 × 19 13/16 in.); Support: 63.6 × 53.3 cm (25 1/16 × 21 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Irving Penn
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Reference Number
- 1996.251
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Copyright
- Copyright Condé Nast Publications, Inc.