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IRVING PENN (American, b. 1917) ALBERTO GIACOMETTI, PARIS titled, dated “GIACOMETTI, PARIS, 1950”...

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IRVING PENN (American, b. 1917) ALBERTO GIACOMETTI, PARIS titled, dated “GIACOMETTI, PARIS, 1950”...
IRVING PENN
(American, b. 1917)
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI, PARIS
titled, dated “GIACOMETTI, PARIS, 1950” and signed “Irving Penn”
in black ink on verso
CondÈ Nast copyright stamp, dated “1951” in pencil on verso
2 edition stamps on verso
inscribed “Early Print”
in pencil on verso
gelatin silver print
image: 207?8 x 197?16 in. (50 x 49.4 cm)
paper: 24 x 221?4 in. (61 x 56.5 cm)
1950
this print is from an edition of 20 or less
ESTIMATE: $6,000-8,000
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Europe
LITERATURE
Irving Penn, MOMENTS PRESERVED: EIGHT ESSAYS IN PHOTOGRAPHS AND WORDS, NEW YORK, Simon & Schuster, 1960, p. 34 (illustrated)
Merry A. Foresta, IRVING PENN: MASTER IMAGES: THE COLLECTIONS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART AND THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, WASHINGTON, D.C., Smithsonian Institutional Press, 1990, pl. 25, p. 38 (illustrated)
Irving Penn, PASSAGE: A WORK RECORD, NEW YORK, Knopf Callaway Books, 1991, p. 83 (illustrated)
Colin Westerbeck, IRVING PENN: A CAREER IN PHOTOGRAPHY, CHICAGO,
Art Institute of Chicago exh. cat., 1997, p. 179, cat. no. 67 (illustrated)
In 1950, Vogue sent a young Irving Penn to Paris in order to experience the vitality and energy of the city. During his ten-day visit, Penn rented a daylit studio on the top floor of a quaint building where scores of artists, writers and other cultural figures arrived to be photographed. Among those that climbed the seven flights of stairs to the studio was the painter and sculptor, Alberto Giacometti. In typical fashion, Penn shot the artist against a spare background, eliminating all references to Giacometti’s artistic practice. Much like one of Giacometti’s own sculptures, however, the frontal view emphasizes the linear elegance of the human form. Like a mirror, Penn’s photograph reflects the creative genius of one of the century’s most renowned artists.