Estimate: € 6.000–7.000

Vintage contact print with 12 images

25,3 x 20,6 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