Stuart Davis

Irving Penn
1946 (negative), 1947 (print)
Gelatin silver print on paper.
Image: 9 5/8 x 7 3/16 inches (24.4 x 19.8 cm); sheet: 10 x 8 1/8 inches (25.4 x 20.7 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.
2007.10
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Irving Penn.
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Recto: printed in white from the negative, upper right: 3481 P-11. Verso: signed in graphite and stamped in black ink, lower center [encircled]: Irving Penn / IRVING PENN; inscribed in graphite, upper left: REF. 6459; inscribed in graphite, upper center [in rectangular border]: STUART DAVIS / NEW YORK, DEC. 18, 1946; indistinctly stamped in gray ink and inscribed in graphite, center [in square border]: MODEL / [illegible] OF SITTING / JAN 15, 1947 / [illegible] / COPYRIGHT / [illegible] / REPRODUCED WITHOUT / WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS, Inc.; inscribed in graphite, upper center [adjacent to and with arrow pointing to stamped and inscribed date 'JAN 15, 1947']: Date of print. / I.P.; stamped in gray ink, center: PHOTOGRAPH / BY / PENN; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, lower left: 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 NAST PUBLICATIONS INC.; stamped and inscribed in black ink, lower right: SIGNED, SILVER PRINTS OF / THIS NEGATIVE NOT EXCEEDING 8.
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Edition of 8.

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