Anaïs Nin, New York

Photography and Media

1971, printed February 1982

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

Currently Off View: Photography and Media

Artist: Irving Penn
Title: Anaïs Nin, New York
Origin: United States
Date: Made 1971
Medium: Platinum-palladium print; edition 17/20
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso; “2824 / .. [in a circle]”; inscribed verso: “ANAIS NIN [in a box] NEW YORK, 1971”; inscribed verso; “Rives Paper on aluminum / Platinum-palladium / Single coating, multiple printing”; inscribed verso: “17/20”; stamped and inscribed verso: “PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1971 by / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS INC. / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright owner.”; signed and stamped verso; “Irving Penn / IRVING PENN / Hand-coated by the photographer”; stamped and inscribed verso: “In addition to 20 prints of this / image in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver prints not exceeding 15 may exist.”; inscribed verso: “Print made February 1982”; stamped verso; “Deacidified.”
Dimensions: 50.2 × 44.6 cm (image); 63.5 × 55.7 cm (paper); 66 × 55.7 cm (mount)
Credit Line: Gift of Irving Penn
Reference Number: 1996.216
Copyright: Copyright Condé Nast Publications, Inc.

Szarkowski, John. 1984. “Irving Penn.” Exh. cat. Museum of Modern Art/New York Graphic Society Books. pl. 136. (other print of this image)
Foresta, Merry A. and William F. Stapp. 1990. “Irving Penn: Master Images.” Exh. cat. National Museum of American Art and National Portrait Gallery/Smithsonian Institution Press. p. 142, cat. 106. (other print of this image)
Penn, Irving. 1991. “Passage: A Work Record.” Knopf. p. 197. (other print of this image?)
Lundström, Jan-Erik. 1995. “Irving Penn fotografier: en donation till mine av Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn/Irving Penn Photographs: A Donation in Memory of Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn.” Exh. cat. Moderna Museet/Raster Förlag. p. 177. (other print of this image)
Westerbeck, Colin. 1997. “Irving Penn: A Career in Photography.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Bulfinch Press. p. 107, cat. 111, pl. 57.

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)
Art Institute of Chicago, “Irving Penn: A Tribute,” October 31–December 13, 2009. (Matthew S. Witkovsky)

Given by the artist to the Art Institute, 1996.

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