Tent in Nepal (A)

Photography and Media

1967

Per Boije (Swedish, 20th cen.)
for Irving Penn (American, 1917–2009)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Per Boije
Title: Tent in Nepal (A)
Place: Sweden (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1967
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: Unmarked recto; inscribed verso: “REF. 8053”; verso: “TENT IN NEPAL [underlined] / 6756-4469”; stamped and inscribed verso; “PHOTOGRAPH BY PER BOIJE / Copyright © 1974 by Irving Penn, COURTESY OF VOGUE / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright owner and / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS INC.”; inscribed verso: “PHOTO YEAR COTA PG. 6.”
Dimensions: Image/paper: 35.8 × 34.9 cm (14 1/8 × 13 3/4 in.); Mount: 43.3 × 37.9 cm (17 1/16 × 14 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Irving Penn
Reference Number: 1996.274
Copyright: Copyright The Irving Penn Foundation

Westerbeck, Colin. 1997. “Irving Penn: A Career in Photography.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Bulfinch Press. p. 172, fig. 12.

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 (Chicago only). (Colin Westerbeck)

Given by the artist to the Art Institute, 1996.

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