Irving Penn
Tennessee Williams
1951 (negative), 1983 (print)
Image: 10 13/16 x 10 11/16 inches (27.4 x 27.2 cm); Sheet: 14 1/16 x 10 15/16 inches (35.7 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.
2007.38
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Edition of 35.
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Verso: signed in graphite and stamped in black ink, center left [encircled]: Irving Penn / IRVING PENN; inscribed in graphite, upper left: TOW 2 8 ['8' superimposed over a '7']; inscribed in graphite, upper right: SP; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, upper left: REF. 299; inscribed in graphite, upper center [in rectangular border]: TENNESSEE WILLIAMS / NEW YORK 1951; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, center: PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / COPYRIGHT © 1951--RENEWED 1978 by / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS INC. / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright owner.; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, center right: SIGNED, SILVER PRINTS OF / THIS NEGATIVE NOT EXCEEDING 35; stamped in black ink, lower center: TONED IN SELENIUM; inscribed in graphite, lower left: Print made 1983.
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