Cecil Beaton, London

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Irving Penn

Title

Cecil Beaton, London

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1950

Medium

Platinum-palladium print

Edition

8 of 15

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso: “119 / .. [in a circle]”; inscribed verso: “CECIL BEATON [in a box] / PHOTOGRAPHED IN LONDON, 1950.”; inscribed verso: “BF 360 Paper on Aluminum / Multiple Coating and Printing / 1 [in a circle] Platinum / 2 [in a circle] Platinum-palladium / Print made March–April 1977.”; stamped verso: “DEACIDIFIED”; inscribed verso: “8/15”; stamped verso: “PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1958 by / LES EDITIONS CONDE NAST S.A. / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright owner.”; stamped and inscribed verso: “In addition to 15 numbered prints of this image / in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed silver / prints not exceeding a total of 15 may exist.”; signed and stamped verso: “Irving Penn / Hand-coated by the photographer [in a circle].”

Dimensions

Image: 38.2 × 37.1 cm (15 1/16 × 14 5/8 in.); Paper: 52 × 51 cm (20 1/2 × 20 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Irving Penn

Reference Number

1996.206

Copyright

Copyright Les Editions Condé Nast S.A.

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