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30 PROVENANCE
IRVING PENN The present contact sheet
(1917–2009) comes from the collection of
Austrian photographer Roland
›Woman in Chicken Pleterski, who worked as an
Hat (Lisa Fonssagrives- assistant for Penn in 1953 in
Penn)‹, New York 1949 New York. Pleterski became
a close friend of Penn and
Vintage contact print with his wife Lisa Fonssagrives,
12 images to whom he shared a special
25,3 × 20,6 cm (10 × 8.1 in) relationship.
Copyright stamp »PROOF, LITERATURE
Date of Sitting Dec 2 – 1949
The Conde Nast Publishers, John Sarkowski (ed.), Irving
Inc.« stamp on the reverse Penn, Museum of Modern Art,
New York 1984, pl. 50 (same
series).
€ 3.000 / € 6.000–7.000
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