Fish Made of Fish, New York

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Irving Penn

Title

Fish Made of Fish, New York

Place

United States (Object made in)

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Made 1939

Medium

Platinum-palladium print

Edition

3 of 40

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso: “2939 / ..”; inscribed verso: “FISH [in a box] Photographed New York 1939 (?)”; inscribed verso: “Strathmore Paper on Aluminum / Platinum-palladium / Print made 1983”; inscribed verso: “3/40”; signed and stamped verso: “Irving Penn / Hand-coated by the photographer [in a circle]”; inscribed verso: “gift to Tom / 1999 / I.P.”; stamped and inscribed verso: “PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1983 by IRVING PENN / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / photographer.”; stamped and inscribed verso: “In addition to 40 numbered prints of this image / in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver prints not exceeding a total of 13 may exist.”

Dimensions

Image: 29 × 52.5 cm (11 7/16 × 20 11/16 in.); Paper: 40.7 × 60.9 cm (16 1/16 × 24 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Irving Penn

Reference Number

1996.158

Copyright

Copyright The Irving Penn Foundation

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