Irving Penn
Nubile Young Beauty of Diamaré, Cameroon

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Nubile Young Beauty of Diamaré, Cameroon
Image non disponible pour Nubile Young Beauty of Diamaré, Cameroon
ArtistAmerican, 1917–2009
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Nubile Young Beauty of Diamaré, Cameroon
Date1969, printed April 1980
Place , , Cameroon, Africa
MediumPlatinum/palladium print
DimensionsImage: 19 1/4 × 19 3/8 in. (48.9 × 49.2 cm)
Sheet: 22 × 24 13/16 in. (55.9 × 63 cm)
Mount: 22 × 26 in. (55.9 × 66 cm)
Credit LineGift of The Irving Penn Foundation
Object number2001.543
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceIrving Penn Trust, New York; given to MFAH, 2001.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil on verso:
Upper center: "2533 [enclosed in circle] / NUBILE YOUNG BEAUTY OF DIAMARÉ (CAMEROON) [title underlined] / Deacidified [stamped in black below] / Reves Paper on Alluminum / Platinum-Palladium / Print made April 1980"
Center, right: "40/40 [enclosed in circle]"

Stamped in black on verso:
Center: "PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © ['1974' inscribed in pencil] by / IRVING PENN / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / photographer and / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS INC"
Center, lower right: "Hand-coated by the photographer / Irving Penn [signed above stamp and enclosed in circle]"

Lower left: "In addition to ['40' inscribed in pencil]numbered prints of this image / in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver / prints ['of a similar negative' inscribed in pencil below] not exceeding a total of ['10' inscribed in pencil] may exist."

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