Irving Penn
Ellsworth Kelly
1973 (negative), 1973 (print)
Image: 13 13/16 x 13 9/16 inches (35.1 x 34.4 cm); Sheet: 16 7/8 x 13 7/8 inches (42.9 x 35.3 cm)
Gelatin silver print on paper.
Purchased as the gift of Richard L. Menschel and with the support of The Horace W. Goldsmith Fund for Americana and The Margaret T. Morris Fund.
2007.47
Notes
Edition of 7. The artist identifies this image as number 1 out of 2 portraits of Ellsworth Kelly.
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Verso: signed and stamped in black ink, center [encircled]: Irving Penn / IRVING PENN; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, upper left: REF. 7930; inscribed in black ink, upper center [in rectangular border]: ELLSWORTH KELLY / NEW YORK STATE, AUG. 31, 1973; inscribed in graphite, center: Ellsworth Kelly / 7325; stamped and inscribed in black ink, left center: PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / COPYRIGHT © 1973 by / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS INC. / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright owner.; stamped and inscribed in black ink, right center: SIGNED, SILVER PRINTS OF / THIS NEGATIVE NOT EXCEEDING 7.; inscribed in black ink, lower center: Print / made / 1973.
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