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Fisherman and Watcher, Paris

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

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  • A work made of platinum-palladium print.

Date:

1966, printed June 1985

Artist:

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Irving Penn

Title

Fisherman and Watcher, Paris

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 1966

Medium

Platinum-palladium print

Edition

2 of 3

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso: “3306”; inscribed verso: “FISHERMAN AND WATCHER / (PARIS, 1966) [in a box]”; inscribed verso: “Rives Paper on Aluminum / Platinum-palladium / print made June 1985”; inscribed verso: “2/3”; stamped and inscribed verso: “PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1966 by / IRVING PENN / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / photographer.”; stamped verso: “Hand-coated by the photographer”; stamped and inscribed verso: “Deacidified / IP”; stamped and inscribed verso: “Hand-coated by the photographer / IP”; signed and stamped verso: “Irving Penn / IRVING PENN [in a circle].”

Dimensions

Image: 16.4 × 24.2 cm (6 1/2 × 9 9/16 in.); Paper: 35.7 × 55.8 cm (14 1/16 × 22 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Irving Penn

Reference Number

1996.257

Copyright

Copyright The Irving Penn Foundation

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