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Man Lighting Girl's Cigarette (Jean Patchett), New York

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

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  • A work made of platinum-palladium print.

Date:

1949, printed May 1977

Artist:

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Irving Penn

Title

Man Lighting Girl's Cigarette (Jean Patchett), New York

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1949

Medium

Platinum-palladium print

Edition

1 of 15

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso: “724 / .. [in a circle]”; inscribed and stamped verso: “MAN LIGHTING GIRL’S CIGARETTE [in a box] PHOTOGRAPHED IN NEW YORK 1949 / IRVING PENN”; inscribed verso: “BF 360 Paper on Aluminum / Multiple Coating and Printing / 1 [in a circle] Platinum / 2 [in a circle] Platinum-palladium / Print made May 1977.”; inscribed verso: “1/15 [in a circle]”; 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.”; stamped and inscribed verso: “In addition to 15 prints of this / image in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver prints not exceeding a total of 8 may exist.”; signed and stamped verso: “Irving Penn / Hand-coated by the photographer / IRVING PENN [in a circle].”

Dimensions

Image: 49.1 × 51.9 cm (19 3/8 × 20 7/16 in.); Paper: 56 × 60.7 cm (22 1/16 × 23 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Irving Penn

Reference Number

1996.229

Copyright

Copyright Condé Nast Publications, Inc.

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