Four Unggai, 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: 50.48 × 48.9 cm (19 7/8 × 19 1/4 in.)
    sheet (visible): 52.07 × 50.8 cm (20 1/2 × 20 in.)
    overall: 76.2 × 66.04 × 1.27 cm (30 × 26 × 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2002.119.72

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Irving Penn; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

Center verso in graphite: 2014 (circled) / (New Guinea 1970) / 4 Unggai (underlined) / Rives Paper on Aluminum / Multiple coating and Printing / (1) Platinum-palladium / (2) Platinum-palladium / Print made May 1979; right of center in graphite: 4/18; stamp: artist's copyright stamp with graphite addition: 1974; stamp: Hand-coated by the photographer; with graphite addition: Irving Penn (circled); stamp: In addition to 18 (graphite addition) numbered prints of this image / in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver / prints not exceeding a total of 10 (graphite addition) may exist.; upper right in graphite: P.P

Wikidata ID

Q64155346

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