Ballet Theatre, New York

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Irving Penn

Title

Ballet Theatre, New York

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1947

Medium

Platinum-palladium print

Edition

7 of 25

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso: “BALLET THEATRE / 933 [in a circle]”; inscribed verso: “BF 360 Paper on Aluminum / Multiple Coating and Printing / 1 [in a circle] Platinum / 2 [in a circle] Platinum-palladium”; inscribed and stamped verso: “Print made January 1977 / Deacidified”; inscribed verso: “7/25”; signed and stamped verso: “Irving Penn [in a circle] / Hand-coated by the photographer”; inscribed and stamped verso: “In addition to 25 numbered prints of this image / in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver prints not exceeding a total of 60 may exist.”; stamped and inscribed verso: “PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1978 by / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS INC. / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright holder.”

Dimensions

Image: 39.1 × 54.9 cm (15 7/16 × 21 5/8 in.); Paper: 56 × 63.4 cm (22 1/16 × 25 in.); Mount: 56 × 66.1 cm (22 1/16 × 26 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Leigh B. Block

Reference Number

1977.910

Copyright

Copyright Condé Nast Publications, Inc.

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