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Colette, Paris

A work made of platinum-palladium print.
Copyright Condé Nast Publications, Inc.

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  • A work made of platinum-palladium print.

Date:

1951, printed December 1976

Artist:

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Irving Penn

Title

Colette, Paris

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1951

Medium

Platinum-palladium print

Edition

1 of 50

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso: “COLETTE”; inscribed verso: “452 / .. [in a circle]”; inscribed verso: “BF. 260 Paper on Aluminum / Multiple coating and Printing / 1 [in a circle] Platinum / 2 [in a circle] Platinum-palladium / Print made December 1976”; signed and stamped verso: “Irving Penn / Hand-coated by the photographer [in a circle]”; inscribed verso: “In addition to 50 prints of this image / in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver prints not exceeding a total of 25 may exist.”; stamped and inscribed verso: “PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1960 by / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS INC / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright owner.”

Dimensions

Image: 49.4 × 49.4 cm (19 1/2 × 19 1/2 in.); Paper: 61.8 × 56 cm (24 3/8 × 22 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Irving Penn

Reference Number

1996.207

Copyright

Copyright Condé Nast Publications, Inc.

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