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Patissiers, Paris

A work made of platinum-palladium print.
Copyright Les Editions Condé Nast S.A.

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  • A work made of platinum-palladium print.

Date:

1950, printed July 1976

Artist:

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Irving Penn

Title

Patissiers, Paris

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 1950

Medium

Platinum-palladium print

Edition

30 of 35

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso: “P1216 [in a circle]”; inscribed verso: “PATISSIERS, PARIS 1950”; inscribed verso: “30/35 [in a circle]”; inscribed verso: “Platinum-palladium / print made July 1976”; signed and stamped verso: “Irving Penn / Hand-coated by the photographer [in a circle]”; stamped and inscribed verso: “PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1951 by / LES EDITIONS CONDE NAST SA / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright owner.”; stamped and inscribed verso: “In addition to 30 prints of this / image in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver / prints not exceeding a total of 6 may exist. / I.P.”

Dimensions

Image: 49.8 × 36.8 cm (19 5/8 × 14 1/2 in.); Paper: 57.4 × 47.4 cm (22 5/8 × 18 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Leigh B. Block

Reference Number

1977.906

Copyright

Copyright Les Editions Condé Nast S.A.

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