Irving Penn
Stephen Sondheim
1994 (negative), 1994 (print)
Image: 10 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches (26 x 26 cm); Sheet: 13 13/16 x 10 15/16 inches (35.1 x 27.8 cm)
Gelatin silver print on paper, selenium toned.
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.
2007.30
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Edition of 2.
Edition size not indicated in marks and inscriptions on verso.
Edition size not indicated in marks and inscriptions on verso.
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Verso: signed in graphite and stamped in brown ink, center left [encircled]: Irving Penn / IRVING PENN; inscribed in graphite, upper right: RM / [illegible, possibly 'a 5']; inscribed in graphite, center left: Ref. 17622; inscribed in graphite, center [in rectangular border]: STEPHEN SONDHEIM / N.Y., 1/26/94; stamped in brown ink and inscribed in graphite, center: PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1994 by / THE CONDE NASTE PUBLICATIONS INC. / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright owner.; stamped in brown ink, center: SILVER PRINTS OF THIS PHOTOGRAPH / NOT EXCEEDING; stamped in black ink, center: TONED IN SELENIUM.
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