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IRVING PENN (American, b. 1917) SCULPTOR'S MODEL, PARIS signed

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IRVING PENN (American, b. 1917) SCULPTOR'S MODEL, PARIS signed
IRVING PENN (American, b. 1917) SCULPTOR'S MODEL, PARIS signed "Irving Penn" in pencil on verso with stamp "Hand-coated by the photographer" in blue ink beneath the signature numbered, titled, dated, editioned and inscribed with print information "P1183, SCULPTOR'S MODEL, Paris, 1950, 21/35, Platinum-palladium print made October 1976" in pencil on verso LES ÉDITIONS CONDÉ NAST 1951 copyright stamp in blue ink on verso platinum-palladium print on ARCHES paper 16 5/16 x 11 3/4 in. (41.4 x 29.8 cm) 1950 printed October 1976 this print is number 21 from an edition of 35 PROVENANCE Photofind Gallery, NEW YORK Private Collection, NEW YORK LITERATURE VOGUE [ Paris], 1951 (illustrated) Irving Penn, MOMENTS PRESERVED, NEW YORK, 1960, p. 165 (illustrated) Irving Penn, WORLDS IN A SMALL ROOM, NEW YORK, 1974, p. 19 (illustrated) IRVING PENN, PHOTOGRAPHS IN PLATINUM METALS: IMAGES 1947-1975, NEW YORK, Marlborough Gallery exhibition catalogue, 1977, cat. no. 63 (illustrated) John Szarkowski, IRVING PENN, NEW YORK, 1984, pl. 90 (illustrated) Irving Penn, PASSAGE: A WORK RECORD, LONDON, 1990, p. 93 (illustrated) The nudes belonging to Irving Penn's EARTHLY BODIES series have been widely and recently celebrated. The present work, however, derives from another series called SMALL TRADES, executed in 1950 in London, Paris, and New York. Most of these images depict manual workers in their uniforms, holding the implements of their trade. The uniform of the "sculptor's model" consists of nothing at all and so, here, we see her elegantly positioned with the props that allow her to maintain poses that would interest the accomplished sculptor. She stands against Penn's signature background and is lit from the side, as is common in Penn's portraiture. The strength of the lighting is especially appropriate here as the complexities of her form, what most concerns the sculptor, are described through the use of such light.
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