Wide Skull (A), New York

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Irving Penn

Title

Wide Skull (A), New York

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1993

Medium

Platinum-palladium print

Edition

4 of 13

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso: “3890”; inscribed verso: “WIDE SKULL (A) / (NEW YORK, 1993) [in a box]”; inscribed verso: “WIDE SKILL”; inscribed verso: “4/13”; inscribed verso: “Platinum and Palladium print”; stamped and inscribed verso; “HAND COATED BY / THE PHOTOGRAPHER / Deacidified I.P.”; inscribed verso: “RIVES PAPER ON ALUMINUM / PLATINUM-PALLADIUM / PRINT MADE FEB-SEPT 1994.”; stamped and inscribed verso; “PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1993 by Irving Penn / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of / copyright owner.”; stamped and inscribed verso; “In addition to 13 prints of this / image in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver prints not exceeding a total of 14 may exist. / I.P.”; signed verso: “Irving Penn.”

Dimensions

Image: 28.4 × 48.6 cm (11 3/16 × 19 3/16 in.); Paper: 37.5 × 59.5 cm (14 13/16 × 23 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Irving Penn

Reference Number

1996.181

Copyright

Copyright The Irving Penn Foundation

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