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Elsa Schiaparelli, New York

A work made of gelatin silver print.
Copyright The Irving Penn Foundation

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  • A work made of gelatin silver print.

Date:

March 28, 1948, printed c. 1948

Artist:

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Irving Penn

Title

Elsa Schiaparelli, New York

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1948

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Edition

of 36

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso: REF 3130; inscribed verso: ..; inscribed verso: ELSA SCHIAPARELLI / NEW YORK, MAR. 29, 1948 [in a box]; stamped and inscribed verso: PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1984 by Irving Penn, COURTESY OF VOGUE / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright owner and / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS INC.; signed and stamped verso: Irving Penn / IRVING PENN [in a circle]; stamped and inscribed verso: SIGNED, SILVER PRINTS OF / THIS NEGATIVE NOT EXCEEDING 36.; inscribed verso: Print made near to date / of photographic sitting. / I.P.

Dimensions

Image: 24.5 × 19.5 cm (9 11/16 × 7 11/16 in.); Paper: 25.6 × 20.2 cm (10 1/8 × 8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Irving Penn

Reference Number

1996.202

Copyright

Copyright The Irving Penn Foundation

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