Irving Penn
Oscar L. Hammerstein II and Richard R. Rodgers
1947 (negative), ca. 1947-48 (print)
Image and sheet: 7 3/8 x 9 7/16 inches (18.8 x 23.9 cm); Mount: 14 x 11 inches (35.5 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.
2007.40
Notes
Edition of 4. The artist identifies this number 1 out of 2 among his portraits of Hammerstein and Rodgers.
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Verso of mount: signed and stamped in black ink, lower center [encircled]: Irving Penn / IRVING PENN; inscribed in black ink, upper right: 14605 P-4; stamped in black ink, upper right: [2 stars]; inscribed in black ink, upper center [in rectangular border]: RICHARD RODGERS AND / OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II / NEW YORK, JULY 21, 1947; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, upper left: REF. 10327; inscribed in graphite, center: HAMMERSTEIN / + / RODGERS; stamped in black ink, center: COPYRIGHT / NOT TO BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT / WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM / THE CONDÉ NAST PUBLICATIONS, INC.; inscribed in black ink, center right: Print made 1947-1948. / I.P.; stamped in black ink, center: PHOTOGRAPH / BY / PENN; stamped and inscribed in black ink, center left: PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / COPYRIGHT © 1948--RENEWED 1976 by / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS INC. / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright owner.; stamped and inscribed in black ink, lower right: SIGNED, SILVER PRINTS OF / THIS NEGATIVE NOT EXCEEDING 4.
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