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Cigarette No. 50, 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:

1972, printed December 1974

Artist:

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Irving Penn

Title

Cigarette No. 50, 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 1972

Medium

Platinum-palladium print

Edition

10 of 38

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso: “C434 [in a circle]”; inscribed verso: “Rives Paper on Aluminum / Multiple coating and printing / 1 [in a circle] Platinum / 2 [in a circle] Platinum-palladium”; inscribed verso: “NEG. NO. 50”; inscribed verso: “Print made December 1974”; inscribed verso: “10/38”; stamped verso: “DEACIDIFIED”; signed and stamped verso: “Irving Penn / Hand-coated by the photographer [in a circle]”; stamped and inscribed verso: “PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1974 by / IRVING PENN / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / photographer.”; inscribed verso: “No more than 38 original prints of / this image will ever be made. / IP.”

Dimensions

Image: 59.7 × 36.2 cm (23 9/16 × 14 5/16 in.); Paper: 63.2 × 56 cm (24 15/16 × 22 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Leigh B. Block

Reference Number

1977.914

Copyright

Copyright The Irving Penn Foundation

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