Pear (C), New York

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Irving Penn

Title

Pear (C), New York

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1993

Medium

Platinum-palladium print

Edition

8 of 11

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso: “3924 / ..” inscribed verso: “PEAR (C) / (NEW YORK, 1993) [in a box]”; inscribed verso: “8/11”; stamped verso: “Platinum and Palladium print”; stamped and inscribed verso: “HAND COATED BY / THE PHOTOGRAPHER/ I.P.”; stamped verso: “Deacidified”; inscribed verso: “BIENFANG PAPER ON ALUMINUM / PLATINUM-PALLADIUM / PRINT MADE JUNE–JULY 1994”; stamped verso: “PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1993 by Irving Penn / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of / photographer.”; stamped and inscribed verso: “In addition 11 numbered prints of this image / in platinum metals, unnumbered, but singed, silver prints not exceeding a total of ZERO may exist. / IP.”; signed and stamped verso: “Irving Penn / IRVING PENN [in a circle].”

Dimensions

Image: 29 × 49 cm (11 7/16 × 19 5/16 in.); Paper: 39.8 × 59.7 cm (15 11/16 × 23 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Irving Penn

Reference Number

1996.177

Copyright

Copyright The Irving Penn Foundation

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