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Harlequin Dress (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn), New York

A work made of platinum-palladium print.
Copyright Condé Nast Publications, Inc.

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  • A work made of platinum-palladium print.

Date:

1950, printed March 1979

Artist:

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Irving Penn

Title

Harlequin Dress (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn), New York

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1950

Medium

Platinum-palladium print

Edition

3 of 30

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso: “2082 / .. [in a circle]”; inscribed verso: “HARLEQUIN DRESS (LISA FONSSAGRIVES-PENN)”; inscribed verso: “Rives Paper on Aluminum / Multiple Coating and Printing /1 [in a circle] Platinum-palladium / 2 [in a circle] Platinum-palladium / Print made March 1979.”; stamped verso: “Deacidified”; inscribed verso: “3/30”; stamped and inscribed verso: “PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1950 by / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS INC / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright owner.”; signed and stamped verso: “Irving Penn / Hand-coated by the photographer / IRVING PENN [in a circle]”; stamped and inscribed verso: “In addition to 30 prints of this / image in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver prints not exceeding a total of 10 may exist.”; inscribed and stamped verso: “PHOTOGRAPHED IN NEW YORK, 1950 / IRVING PENN.”

Dimensions

Image: 50.4 × 47.8 cm (19 7/8 × 18 7/8 in.); Paper: 63.3 × 56 cm (24 15/16 × 22 1/16 in.); Mount: 66.1 × 56 cm (26 1/16 × 22 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Irving Penn

Reference Number

1996.236

Copyright

Copyright Condé Nast Publications, Inc.

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