Skip to Content
Closed now, next open Thursday. Closed now, next open Thursday.

Man in White, Woman in Black, Morocco

A work made of platinum-palladium print.
Copyright The Irving Penn Foundation

Image actions

  • A work made of platinum-palladium print.

Date:

1971, printed February 1977

Artist:

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Irving Penn

Title

Man in White, Woman in Black, Morocco

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

Made 1971

Medium

Platinum-palladium print

Edition

11 of 25

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso: “MAN IN WHITE, WOMAN IN BLACK”; inscribed verso: “1384 / .. [in a circle]”; inscribed verso: “11/25”; inscribed verso: “BF 360 Paper on Alumninum / Multiple coating and printing / 1 [in a circle] Platinum / 2 [in a circle] Platinum-palladium / Print made February 1977”; signed and stamped verso: “Irving Penn / Hand-coated by the photographer [in a circle]”; stamped and inscribed verso: “PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1974 by Irving Penn / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright owner and / THE CONDE NAST PUBICATIONS INC.”; 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 12 may exist.”

Dimensions

Image: 55.8 × 49.8 cm (22 × 19 5/8 in.); Paper: 62.8 × 55.9 cm (24 3/4 × 22 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Irving Penn

Reference Number

1996.272

Copyright

Copyright The Irving Penn Foundation

Extended information about this artwork

Object information is a work in progress and may be updated as new research findings emerge. To help improve this record, please email . Information about image downloads and licensing is available here.

Share

Sign up for our enewsletter to receive updates.

Learn more

Image actions

Share