269. Irving Penn United States 1917-2009 "Motorcycle Policeman, New York, 1951".
Signed Irving Penn and numbered 7/23 and dated July 1976 on verso. Also with stamp "Handcoated by the photographer" and also "Photograph by Irving Penn copyright 1951 by the Conde Nast Publications Inc." on verso. Platinum Palladium, image 49.5 x 36.5 cm. Sheet 56.7 x 45.5 cm.
- Department: Photographs
- Auction: 23 May 2012, lot 269
- Viewing: 15 – 22 May 2012
Provenance
Camera Obscura, Stockholm.
Literature
Irving Penn, "Moments preserved : eight essays in photographs and words", 1960, reproduced fullpage page 178.
Irving Penn, "Passage: A work recorded", 1991, reproduced fullpage page 117.
Virginia A. Heckert and Anne Lacoste, "Irving Penn Small Trades", J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009, reproduced fullpage plate 87.