Irving Penn
Stuart Davis
1946 (negative), 1947 (print)
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)
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.
2007.10
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Edition of 8.
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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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