Irving Penn
Marc Chagall
1947 (negative), ca. 1947 (print)
Image and sheet: 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (19.1 x 24.1 cm); mount: 14 1/16 x 11 inches (35.7 x 28 cm)
Gelatin silver print on paper; mounted to cardstock.
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.
2007.25
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Edition of 8.
Mount is Monogram Illustration Board, manufactured by Ruhl and Company, New York.
Mount is Monogram Illustration Board, manufactured by Ruhl and Company, New York.
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Recto of mount: stamped in red ink, upper left: [1 star]; inscribed in graphite, lower center: 55; inscribed in graphite, lower left: very imp. Verso of mount: signed and stamped in black ink, lower center [encircled]: Irving Penn / IRVING PENN; inscribed in black ink, upper right: 14534 P-13 ['13' altered to '15']; stamped in black ink, upper right: [1 star, struck through]; inscribed in graphite, upper right: BK; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, upper center: REF. 4881; inscribed in black ink, upper center [in rectangular border]: MARC CHAGALL / NEW YORK, JULY 3, 1947; inscribed in black ink, upper center: MARC CHAGALL; stamped in black ink, center right: COPYRIGHT / NOT TO BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT / WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM / THE CONDÉ NAST PUBLICATIONS, INC.; stamped in black ink, center right: PHOTOGRAPH / BY / PENN; stamped and inscribed in black ink, center: PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1983 by Irving Penn, COURTESY OF VOGUE / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright owner and / THE CONDE NASTE PUBLICATIONS INC.; inscribed in black ink, lower left: Print made near to date of / photographic sitting. / I.P.; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, lower right: SIGNED, SILVER PRINTS OF / THIS NEGATIVE NOT EXCEEDING 8.; printed in black ink, center left [sideways, in rectangle]: "MONOGRAM" / ILLUSTRATION BOARD / THIN AND THICK / 20x30 22x30 30x40 / FAVOR RUHL AND COMPANY / NEW YORK CHICAGO
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