Hell's Angels, San Francisco

1967, printed 1978

Irving Penn

Artist, American, 1917 - 2009

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    platinum/palladium print on Rives BFK paper mounted on aluminum, 1978

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Irving Penn

  • Dimensions

    image: 47.31 × 56.36 cm (18 5/8 × 22 3/16 in.)
    sheet (visible): 51.44 × 53.02 cm (20 1/4 × 20 7/8 in.)
    overall: 66.04 × 76.2 × 1.27 cm (26 × 30 × 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2002.119.65

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Irving Penn; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2009

  • Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2009, no. 98.

Inscriptions

center verso in graphite: 1703 (circled) / Hell's angels (underlined) / Rives Paper on Aluminum / Multiple coating and Printing / (1) Platinum-palladium / (2) Platinum-palladium / Print made August-September 1978; right of center: 3/35 (circled); artist's copyright stamp with graphite addition: 1967; stamp: Hand-coated by the photographer; with graphite addition: Irving Penn; 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 20 (graphite addition) may exist.; upper left in graphite: P.P.; upper right in graphite: LS

Wikidata ID

Q64155338

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