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Girl Drinking (Mary Jane Russell), New York

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

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  • A work made of platinum-palladium-iridium print.

Date:

1949, printed July 1979

Artist:

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Irving Penn

Title

Girl Drinking (Mary Jane Russell), New York

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1949

Medium

Platinum-palladium-iridium print

Edition

8 of 25

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso: “865 / .. [in a circle]”; stamped and inscribed verso: “PHOTOGRAPHED IN NEW YORK, 1949 IRVING PENN”; inscribed verso: “GIRL DRINKING (MJR) [in a box]”; inscribed verso “8/25”; inscribed verso: “Rives Paper on Aluminum / Multiple coating and printing / 1 [in a circle] Platinum-palladium / 2 [in a circle] Platinum-iridium / Print made July 1979.”; stamped verso: “Deacidified”; stamped and inscribed verso: “PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1949 by / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS INC. / Not to be reproduced without written permission of the copyright owner.”; signed and stamped verso: “Irving Penn / Hand-coated by the photographer / IRVING PENN [in a circle]”; stamped and inscribed verso: “In addition to 25 numbered prints of this image / in platinum metals, unnumbered but signed, silver / prints not exceeding a total of 15 may exist.”

Dimensions

52 × 49.2 cm (20 1/2 × 19 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Irving Penn

Reference Number

1996.228

Copyright

Copyright Condé Nast Publications, Inc.

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