Two Warriors Holding Hands, New Guinea

1970, printed 1979

Irving Penn

Artist, American, 1917 - 2009

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    platinum/palladium print on Rives BFK paper mounted on aluminum, 1979

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Irving Penn

  • Dimensions

    image: 40.32 × 40.32 cm (15 7/8 × 15 7/8 in.)
    sheet (visible): 52.71 × 51.12 cm (20 3/4 × 20 1/8 in.)
    overall: 71.12 × 60.96 × 1.27 cm (28 × 24 × 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2002.119.78

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Irving Penn; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

center verso in graphite: 1926 (circled) / 2 New Guinea Warriors Holding Hands (1970) (underlined) / Rives Paper on Aluminum / Multiple coating and Printing (1) Platinum-palladium / (2) Platinum-palladium / Print made March 1979; right of center: 3/31; center: artist's copyright stamp with graphite addition: 1979; stamp: Hand-coated by the photographer; with graphite addition: Irving Penn (circled); stamp: In addition to 31 (graphite addition) numbered prints of this image / in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver / prints not exceeding a total of 0 (graphite addition) may exist; upper right in graphite: J.W.

Wikidata ID

Q64155313

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