12th Oct, 2019 16:00

OstLicht Photo Auction Autumn 2019

 
Lot 116
 

IRVING PENN (1917–2009)
‘Woman in Chicken Hat (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn)’, New York 1949

Sold for €5,000


Lot details

Estimate: € 6.000–7.000

Vintage contact print with 11 images

25,4 x 20,7 cm

Copyright stamp "PROOF, Date of Sitting Dec 2 - 1949 The Conde Nast Publishers, Inc." stamp on the reverse

PROVENANCE The present contact sheet comes from the collection of Austrian photographer Roland Pleterski, who worked as an assistant for Penn in 1953 in New York. Pleterski became a close friend of Penn and his wife Lisa Fonssagrives, to whom he shared a special relationship.

LITERATURE John Sarkowski (ed.), Irving Penn, Museum of Modern Art, New York 1984, plate 50 (same series).

Start price: €3.000