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Four Unggai, New Guinea

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

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  • A work made of platinum-palladium print.

Date:

1970, printed April/May 1977

Artist:

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Irving Penn

Title

Four Unggai, New Guinea

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 1970

Medium

Platinum-palladium print

Edition

2 of 18

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso: “152”; inscribed verso: “4 UNGGAI WARRIORS, NEW GUINEA [in a box]”; inscribed verso: “BF 360 Paper on Aluminum / Multiple Coating and Printing / 1 [in a circle] Platinum / 2 Platinum-palladium / Print made April–May 1977”; stamped verso: “Deacidified”; inscribed verso: “2/18”; stamped and inscribed verso: “In addition to 18 numbered prints of this image / in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver prints not exceeding a total of 10 may exist.”; stamped and inscribed verso: “[Copyright information illegible]”; signed and stamped verso Irving Penn / Hand-coated by the photographer [in a circle]”.

Dimensions

Image: 50.8 × 49.4 cm (20 × 19 1/2 in.); Paper: 63.3 × 55.9 cm (24 15/16 × 22 1/16 in.); Mount: 66 × 55.9 cm (26 × 22 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg

Reference Number

1991.1269

Copyright

Copyright The Irving Penn Foundation

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