Irving Penn
Italo Calvino
1983 (negative), 1999 (print)
Image: 10 13/16 x 10 11/16 inches (27.4 x 27.1 cm); Sheet: 13 7/8 x 10 7/8 inches (35.3 x 27.6 cm)
Gelatin silver print on paper, selenium toned.
Gift of Irving Penn, 2006.
2007.35
Notes
Edition of 13. The artist identifies this image as A among his portraits of Italo Calvino from this sitting.
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Verso: signed in graphite and stamped in black ink, lower left [encircled]: Irving Penn / IRVING PENN; inscibed in graphite, upper right: PDH; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, upper left: REF. 18479; inscribed in graphite, upper center [in rectangular border]: ITALO CALVINO (A) / (NEW YORK, APRIL 14, 1983); stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, center right: SIGNED PRINTS OF THIS PHOTOGRAPH / NOT EXCEEDING 13. / I.P.; stamped in black ink, lower center: TONED IN: SELENIUM; inscribed in graphite, lower left [below artist's signature]: Print made Jan. 12, 1999. / I.P.; stamped in black ink, lower right: HYPO ELIMINATED.
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Irving Penn.
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