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The Angel, 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:

1946, printed September 1990

Artist:

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

About this artwork

Status

On loan to The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia for Alexey Brodovitch: Astonish Me

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Irving Penn

Title

The Angel, New York

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1946

Medium

Platinum-palladium print

Edition

18 of 52

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso: “.. / 2147”; inscribed verso: “THE ANGEL / (NEW YORK, 1946) [in a box]”; inscribed verso: “18/52”; inscribed verso: “PLATINUM-PALLADIUM / SINGLE COATING, MULTIPLE PRINTING / PRINT MADE SEPTEMBER 1990 / RIVES PAPER ON ALUMINUM”; stamped and inscribed verso; “HAND COATED BY / THE PHOTOGRAPHER / I.P.”; signed and stamped verso: “Irving Penn / IRVING PENN [in a circle]”; inscribed verso: “PRINT MADE 1990 / I.P.”; stamped and inscribed verso: “PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1946–RENEWED 1974 by Irving Penn, / Courtesy of Vogue / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of / photographer.”

Dimensions

Image: 58 × 46.6 cm (22 7/8 × 18 3/8 in.); Paper: 63 × 56 cm (24 13/16 × 22 1/16 in.); Mount: 65.9 × 56 cm (26 × 22 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Irving Penn

Reference Number

1996.193

Copyright

Copyright The Irving Penn Foundation

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