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Guedras in the Wind, Morocco

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

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  • A work made of platinum-palladium print.

Date:

1971, printed November 1980

Artist:

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Irving Penn

Title

Guedras in the Wind, Morocco

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 1971

Medium

Platinum-palladium print

Edition

7 of 32

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso: “1467 / .. [in a circle]”; inscribed verso: “GUEDRAS IN THE WIND [underlined] / Rives Paper on Aluminum / Platinum-palladium / Print made November 1980.”; stamped verso: “Deacidified”; stamped and inscribed verso: “PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1978 by Irving Penn / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright owner and / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATINS INC.”; inscribed verso: “7/32”; signed and stamped verso: “Irving Penn / Hand-coated by the photographer [in a circle]”; stamped and inscribed verso: “In addition to 32 numbered prints of this image / in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver prints not exceeding a total of 0 may exist.”

Dimensions

Image: 44.5 × 44.5 cm (17 9/16 × 17 9/16 in.); Paper: 60.6 × 55.9 cm (23 7/8 × 22 1/16 in.); Mount: 63.4 × 55.9 cm (25 × 22 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Irving Penn

Reference Number

1996.271

Copyright

Copyright The Irving Penn Foundation

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