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4 Unggai (New Guinea), 1970 25" x 22" Hand-Coated Platinum-Palladium Print by Irving Penn, Edition 17 of 18. Hand-Coated Platinum-Palladium 25" x 22" print (image size 20" x 19-½") on aluminum mount of 4 Unggai (New Guinea), 1970 by Irving Penn, Edition 17 of 18, printed May 1979, with graphite inscription (NEW GUINEA, 1970) / Rives Paper on Aluminum / Multiple Coating and Printing / ? Platinum-palladium / ? Platinum-palladium / Print made May 1979, Deacidified rubber stamp, 17/18 in graphite, Hand-coated by the photographer rubber stamp with signature in graphite, and PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1974 (in graphite) by Irving Penn / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright owner and / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS INC rubber stamp on the verso. Very Fine, with light staining on the verso edges.

Inscribed verso: "2020" (circled) / "(NEW GUINEA, 1970)" and "4 UNGGAI" (underlined) "Rives Paper on Aluminum / Multiple Coating and Printing / 1 [in a circle] Platinum-palladium / 2 [in a circle] Platinum-palladium / Print made May 1979"; stamped: Deacidified; in graphite: "17/18"; artist's copyright stamp with "1974" (graphite addition); signed and stamped: "Irving Penn"/ Hand-coated by the photographer [in a circle]; stamped: "In addition to 18 (graphite addition) numbered prints of this image / in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver prints not exceeding a total of 10 (graphite addition) may exist".

Version at National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Irving Penn.
Exhibited at Art Institute of Chicago, The Intuitive Eye: Photographs from the David C. & Sarajean Ruttenberg Collection, October 12, 1991-January 12, 1992. (Colin Westerbeck); Art Institute of Chicago, Irving Penn, A Career in Photography, November 22, 1997-February 1, 1998; traveled to St. Petersburg, Russia, State Hermitage Museum, March 1-May 16, 1998; Hamburg, Germany, Deichtorhallen, June 18-September 6, 1998; Munich, Germany, Müchner Stadtmuseum, October 6, 1998-February 21, 1999; San Francisco, California, Friends of Photography/Ansel Adams Center for Photography, November 11, 1999-January 23, 2000; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 25-June 4, 2000; Paris, France, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, September 13-November 5, 2000 (Chicago only). (Colin Westerbeck).
Reproduced in Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, The Art Institute of Chicago, Westerbeck, ed., Little, Brown and Company, 1997, fig. 6, p. 58; Penn, Passage: A Work Record, Irving Penn, Alexandra Arrowsmith, Nicola Majocchi, Alfred A. Knopf, 1991, p. 189; and Irving Penn Platinum Prints, Greenough, National Gallery of Art, 2005, pl. 54.


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