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Max Ernst & Dorothea Tanning, New York

A work made of gelatin silver print.
Copyright The Irving Penn Foundation

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  • A work made of gelatin silver print.

Date:

March 20, 1947, printed 1983

Artist:

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Irving Penn

Title

Max Ernst & Dorothea Tanning, New York

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1947

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Edition

of 12

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso: REF. 11466 ; inscribed verso: JOB NO: 13897-P4; inscribed verso: MAX ERNST / DOROTHEA TANING [in a box] / PHOTOGRAPHED IN NEW YORK, MARCH 20, 1947; inscribed verso: PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN; stamped and inscribed verso: PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1983 by Irving Penn, COURTESY OF VOGUE / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright owner and / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS INC.; stamped verso: TONED IN SELENIUM; inscribed verso: Print made 1983. / I.P.; signed and stamped verso: Irving Penn / PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN [in a circle].

Dimensions

Image: 24.3 × 19.2 cm (9 5/8 × 7 9/16 in.); Paper: 24.7 × 19.6 cm (9 3/4 × 7 3/4 in.); Mount: 35.1 × 25.4 cm (13 7/8 × 10 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Irving Penn

Reference Number

1996.195

Copyright

Copyright The Irving Penn Foundation

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