W. H. Auden

Irving Penn
1947 (negative), ca. 1947 (print)
Gelatin silver print on paper.
Image: 9 9/16 x 7 5/8 inches (24.3 x 19.4 cm); sheet: 9 15/16 x 8 inches (25.2 x 20.3 cm)
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.
2007.12
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Irving Penn.
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Recto: printed in white from the negative, upper right: 15042 P-11. Verso: signed in graphite and stamped in black ink, lower left [encircled]: Irving Penn / IRVING PENN; inscribed in graphite, upper right: 7 [encircled, sideways] 1p RF; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, upper left: REF. 2357; inscribed in graphite, upper center [in rectangular border]: W. H. AUDEN / NEW YORK, OCT. 16, 1947; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, center: PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1984 by Irving Penn, COURTESY OF VOGUE / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright owner and / THE CONDE NASTE PUBLICATIONS INC.; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, lower right: SIGNED, SILVER PRINTS OF / THIS NEGATIVE NOT EXCEEDING 51.; inscribed in graphite, lower left [below artist's signature]: Print made near to date of / photographic sitting. / I.P.
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Edition of 51.

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