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Single Oriental Poppy (A), New York

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

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  • A work made of platinum-palladium print.

Date:

1968, printed May/June 1987

Artist:

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Irving Penn

Title

Single Oriental Poppy (A), New York

Place

United States (Artist's nationality)

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Made 1968

Medium

Platinum-palladium print

Edition

2 of 12

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso: “.. / 3351”; inscribed verso: “Single Oriental Poppy / NEW YORK, 1968 [in a box]”; inscribed verso: “Rives Paper on Aluminum / Multiple Coating and Printing / 1 [in a circle] Platinum-palladium / 2 [in a circle] Platinum-palladium”; inscribed verso: “Print made May-June 1987”; inscribed verso: “2/12”; inscribed verso: “In addition to 12 signed platinum-palladium prints / of this image, there are also 17 signed dye transfer prints. I.P.”; stamped and inscribed verso: “PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1980 by Irving Penn, Courtesy of Vogue / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / photographer.”; signed and stamped verso: “Irving Penn / IRVING PENN [in a circle].”

Dimensions

Image: 44 × 53 cm (17 3/8 × 20 7/8 in.); Mount: 51.7 × 65 cm (20 3/8 × 25 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Irving Penn

Reference Number

1996.166

Copyright

Copyright The Irving Penn Foundation

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