Rochas Mermaid Dress (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn), Paris, 1950

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Medium

platinum/palladium print on Rives BFK paper mounted on aluminum, 1980

Dimensions

overall: 50.2 x 49.9 cm (19 3/4 x 19 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Irving Penn

Accession Number

2002.119.45

Artists / Makers

Irving Penn (artist) American, 1917 - 2009

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Inscription

center verso in graphite: 2627 (circled); Paris 1950 / Mermaid Dress (Rochas) (underlined) / Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn / Rives Paper on Aluminum; Multiple coating and Printing / (1) Platinum-palladium / (2) Platinum-palladium / Print made May-June 1980; right of center 22/25; center verso: artist's copyright stamp with graphite addition: 1950; center verso, stamp: Hand-coated by the photographer; with graphite addition: Irving Penn; lower center verso, stamp: In addition to 25 (graphite addition) numbered prints of this image / in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver / prints not exceeding a total of 7 (graphite addition) may exist.; upper right in graphite: G.M

Provenance

Irving Penn; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Penn, Irving