Artist
Irving Penn (American, 1917–2009)American, 1917–2009
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Picasso, Cannes
Date1957, printed February 1978
PlaceCannes, France
MediumPlatinum/palladium print
DimensionsImage: 19 5/8 × 19 1/2 in. (49.8 × 49.5 cm)
Sheet: 25 3/16 × 22 7/16 in. (64 × 57 cm)
Mount: 26 × 20 1/2 in. (66 × 52 cm)
Sheet: 25 3/16 × 22 7/16 in. (64 × 57 cm)
Mount: 26 × 20 1/2 in. (66 × 52 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Meyer Levy Charitable Foundation, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.1829
Not on view
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Department
PhotographySpecial Collections
Object Type
Bought by Manfred Heiting from PaceMacGill Gallery on 7/31/1983.
Exhibition History"Irving Penn - Collection Privee", Museum for Art and History, Fribourg, 1994.
“Made for Magazines: Iconic 20th-Century Photographs,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 9–May 4, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil, verso, upper center, and circled: "1456"
Inscribed in pencil, verso, upper left, and underlined: "PICASSO"
Inscribed in pencil, verso: "Bt Paper on Aluminum / Singe lighting, multiple printing / Platinum-palladium / Print made February 1978" followed by the following stamp in purple: "De acidified"
Stamped in purple, verso: "PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © [inserted in pencil: "1960"] by Irving Penn / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright holder and / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS INC"
Stamped in purple, verso, following the artist's signature: "Hand-coated by the photographer"
Stamped in purple, verso: "In addition to [inserted in pencil: "45"] numbered prints of this image / In platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver / prints not exceeding a total of [inserted in pencil: "30"] may exist"
Inscribed in pencil, verso: "16/45"
Inscribed in pencil, verso, upper left, and underlined: "PICASSO"
Inscribed in pencil, verso: "Bt Paper on Aluminum / Singe lighting, multiple printing / Platinum-palladium / Print made February 1978" followed by the following stamp in purple: "De acidified"
Stamped in purple, verso: "PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © [inserted in pencil: "1960"] by Irving Penn / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright holder and / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS INC"
Stamped in purple, verso, following the artist's signature: "Hand-coated by the photographer"
Stamped in purple, verso: "In addition to [inserted in pencil: "45"] numbered prints of this image / In platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver / prints not exceeding a total of [inserted in pencil: "30"] may exist"
Inscribed in pencil, verso: "16/45"
The photograph is signed in pencil, verso, lower right: "Irving Penn"
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Irving Penn
1969, printed April 1980
Platinum/palladium print
2001.543
