View of Fez

Irving Penn
1951 (negative), 1951-53 (print)
Gelatin silver print.
Image: 12 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches (26 x 21 cm); Sheet: 14 x 11 inches (35.6 x 28 cm)
Purchased on the Charina Endowment Fund.
2020.21
Provenance: 
Irving Penn.
Inscription: 
Verso: signed in graphite and stamped in black ink, center left [encircled]: Irving Penn / IRVING PENN, Print made 1951-1953 IP; inscribed in graphite, upper center [in rectangular border]: VIEW OF FEZ / (MOROCCO, 1951); stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, upper left: REF. 9856; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, center: PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / COPYRIGHT © 1951. RENEWED 1979 by Irving Penn, Courtesy of Vogue / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright owner and / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATION INC.; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, center right: SIGNED, SILVER PRINTS OF / THIS NEGATIVE NOT EXCEEDING 22.
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Edition of 22.

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