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Cigarette No. 69, 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 April 1975

Artist:

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Irving Penn

Title

Cigarette No. 69, New York

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1972

Medium

Platinum-palladium print

Edition

3 of 46

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso: “C128 / .. [in a circle]”; inscribed verso: “Rives Paper on Aluminum / Single coating, multiple printing / Palladium / Print made April 1975”; inscribed verso: “NEG. NO. 69”; inscribed verso: “3/46”; signed and stamped verso: “Irving Penn / Hand-coated by the photographer [in a circle]”; stamped verso: “DEACIDIFIED”; inscribed verso: “No more than 46 original prints of this picture will ever be made. / I.P.”; stamped and inscribed verso: “PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1974 by Irving Penn / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / photographer.”

Dimensions

Image: 57 × 46.9 cm (22 1/2 × 18 1/2 in.); Mount: 63.3 × 56 cm (24 15/16 × 22 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Irving Penn

Reference Number

1996.167

Copyright

Copyright The Irving Penn Foundation

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