Ballet Society, New York

1948, printed 1980

Irving Penn

Artist, American, 1917 - 2009

Irving Penn

Attributed to

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    platinum/palladium print on Rives BFK paper mounted on aluminum

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Irving Penn

  • Dimensions

    image: 57.47 × 57.79 cm (22 5/8 × 22 3/4 in.)
    sheet (visible): 48.26 × 59.37 cm (19 × 23 3/8 in.)
    overall: 76.2 × 66.04 × 1.27 cm (30 × 26 × 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2002.119.25

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Irving Penn; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2015

  • In Light of the Past: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 3 – July 26, 2015

Inscriptions

center verso in graphite: 2616 (circled) / Ballet Society (underlined) / 14/15 / Rives Paper on Aluminum / Multiple Coating and Printing / (1) Platinum-palladium / (2) Platinum-palladium / Print made June-July 1980; center verso: artist's copyright stamp with graphite addition: 1948 renewed 1976; stamp: Hand-coated by the photographer; with graphite addition: Irving Penn; stamp: In addition to 15 (graphite addition) numbered prints of this image / in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed silver / prints not exceeding a total of 13 (graphite addition) may exist.; lower right in graphite: IP.241.Y; upper right in graphite: JK

Wikidata ID

Q64155324

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