Sitting Man with Pink Face, New Guinea

1970, printed 1979

Irving Penn

Artist, American, 1917 - 2009

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Irving Penn

  • Dimensions

    image: 52.07 × 48.9 cm (20 1/2 × 19 1/4 in.)
    sheet (visible): 53.98 × 50.8 cm (21 1/4 × 20 in.)
    overall: 76.2 × 66.04 × 1.27 cm (30 × 26 × 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2002.119.75

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Irving Penn; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

Center verso in graphite: 2396 (circled) / (New Guinea 1970) / Sitting Man with Pink Face (underlined) / Rives Paper on Aluminum / Multiple coating and Printing / (1) Platinum-palladium / (2) Platinum-palladium / Print made December 1970; right of center in graphite: 40/50; stamp: artist's copyright stamp with graphite addition: 1979 / Courtesy of Vogue; stamp: Hand-coated by the photographer / Irving Penn; with graphite addition: Irving Penn (circled); stamp: In addition to 50 (graphite addition) numbered prints of this image / in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver / prints not exceeding a total of 5 (graphite addition) may exist.; upper right in graphite: T.F.

Wikidata ID

Q64155318

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