Three Asaro Mud Men, New Guinea

1970, printed 1976

Irving Penn

Artist, American, 1917 - 2009

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    platinum/palladium print on Bienfang paper mounted on aluminum, 1976

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Irving Penn

  • Dimensions

    image: 50.8 × 49.21 cm (20 × 19 3/8 in.)
    sheet (visible): 52.71 × 51.12 cm (20 3/4 × 20 1/8 in.)
    overall: 76.2 × 66.04 × 1.27 cm (30 × 26 × 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2002.119.77

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Irving Penn; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

Center verso in graphite: 3 Asaro Mudmen / 310 (circled) / BF 360 paper on Aluminum / Multiple coating an dprinting / (1) Platinum / (2) Platinum-palladium / Print made December 1976; right of center in graphite: 24/35; stamp: Hand-coated by the photographer; with graphite addition: Irving Penn (circled); stamp: In addition to 35 (graphite addition) numbered prints of this image / in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver / prints not exceeding a total of 15 (graphite addition) may exist.; stamp: artist's copyright stamp with graphite addition: 1974

Wikidata ID

Q64155327

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