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Augustus John, Hampshire, England

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

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  • A work made of platinum-palladium print.

Date:

1958, printed August 1976

Artist:

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Irving Penn

Title

Augustus John, Hampshire, England

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 1958

Medium

Platinum-palladium print

Edition

4 of 35

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso: “P747 [in a circle]”; inscribed verso: “AUGUSTUS JOHN”; inscribed verso: “4/35”; inscribed verso: “Platinum-palladium / Print made August 1976”; stamped verso: “Deacidified”; stamped and inscribed verso; “In addition to 25 prints of this / image in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver prints not exceeding 36 may exist.”; stamped and inscribed verso: “PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1961 by / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS INC. / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the copyright owner.”; signed and stamped verso: “Irving Penn / Hand-coated by the photographer [n a circle].”

Dimensions

Image: 48.6 × 48 cm (19 3/16 × 18 15/16 in.); Paper: 57.3 × 56.7 cm (22 9/16 × 22 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Maxine and Larry Snider

Reference Number

2000.159

Copyright

Copyright The Irving Penn Foundation

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