Pear (C), New York

Photography and Media

1993, printed June/July 1994

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Irving Penn
Title: Pear (C), New York
Origin: United States
Date: Made 1993
Medium: Platinum-palladium print; edition 8/11
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso: “3924 / ..” inscribed verso: “PEAR (C) / (NEW YORK, 1993) [in a box]”; inscribed verso: “8/11”; stamped verso: “Platinum and Palladium print”; stamped and inscribed verso: “HAND COATED BY / THE PHOTOGRAPHER/ I.P.”; stamped verso: “Deacidified”; inscribed verso: “BIENFANG PAPER ON ALUMINUM / PLATINUM-PALLADIUM / PRINT MADE JUNE–JULY 1994”; stamped verso: “PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1993 by Irving Penn / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of / photographer.”; stamped and inscribed verso: “In addition 11 numbered prints of this image / in platinum metals, unnumbered, but singed, silver prints not exceeding a total of ZERO may exist. / IP.”; signed and stamped verso: “Irving Penn / IRVING PENN [in a circle].”
Dimensions: 29 × 49 cm (image); 39.8 × 59.7 cm (paper)
Credit Line: Gift of Irving Penn
Reference Number: 1996.177
Copyright: Copyright The Irving Penn Foundation

Westerbeck, Colin. 1997. “Irving Penn: A Career in Photography.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Bulfinch Press. p. 151, cat. 145, pl. 84.

Art Institute of Chicago, “Irving Penn, A Career in Photography,” November 22, 1997–February 1, 1998; traveled to St. Petersburg, Russia, State Hermitage Museum, March 1–May 16, 1998; Hamburg, Germany, Deichtorhallen, June 18–September 6, 1998; Munich, Germany, Müchner Stadtmuseum, October 6, 1998–February 21, 1999; San Francisco, California, Friends of Photography/Ansel Adams Center for Photography, November 11, 1999–January 23, 2000; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 25–June 4, 2000; Paris, France, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, September 13–November 5, 2000. (Colin Westerbeck)

Given by the artist to the Art Institute, 1996.

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