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Tambul Warrior, New Guinea

A work made of platinum-palladium print.
Copyright The Irving Penn Foundation

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  • A work made of platinum-palladium print.

Date:

1970, printed June 1979

Artist:

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Irving Penn

Title

Tambul Warrior, New Guinea

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1970

Medium

Platinum-palladium print

Edition

11 of 25

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso: “176 / .. [in a circle]”; inscribed verso: “(NEW GUINEA 1970)”; inscribed verso: “11/25”; inscribed verso: “TAMBUL WARRIOR [underlined] / Rives Paper on Aluminum / Single coating, multiple printing / Platinum-palladium / Print made June 1979”; stamped and inscribed verso: “PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1974 by Irving Penn / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the /copyright owner and / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS INC.”; signed and stamped verso: “Irving Penn / Hand-coated by the photographer [in a circle]”; stamped and inscribed verso: “In addition to 25 numbered prints of this image / in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver prints not exceeding a total of 20 may exist.”

Dimensions

Image: 49.9 × 49.6 cm (19 11/16 × 19 9/16 in.); Paper: 62.8 × 55.9 cm (24 3/4 × 22 1/16 in.); Mount: 66 × 55.9 cm (26 × 22 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Irving Penn

Reference Number

1996.268

Copyright

Copyright The Irving Penn Foundation

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