Irving Penn
Three Dahomey Girls

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Three Dahomey Girls
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ArtistAmerican, 1917–2009
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Three Dahomey Girls
Date1967, printed 1968
MediumPlatinum/palladium print
DimensionsImage: 19 × 18 5/8 in. (48.3 × 47.3 cm)
Sheet: 23 3/4 × 22 5/8 in. (60.4 × 57.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Manfred Heiting, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.1822
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceArtist; Stephan White Gallery, Los Angeles.

Bought by Manfred Heiting from Stephan White Associates [n.d.]
Exhibition History"Irving Penn - Master Images", National Portrait Gallery, Washington, 1990.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil on verso:
Upper center: "3 Dahomey girls (2) / P 282 [enclosed in circle] / Platinum-Palladium / Print made 1968 / Irving Penn [signature enclosed in circle]"

Center, right: "13/30 [enclosed in circle]"

Stamped in black on verso:
Center, below signature: "Hand-coated by the photographer"

Center, lower left: Deacidified to Ph8.5-9.5"

Lower left: "PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © ['1967' inscribed in pencil] by / IRVING PENN / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / photographer and / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS INC"
Lower right:

Lower right: "In addition to ['30' 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 ['12' inscribed in pencil] may exist."

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