Five Women, Morocco

1971, 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: 51.12 × 50.17 cm (20 1/8 × 19 3/4 in.)
    sheet (visible): 52.71 × 52.07 cm (20 3/4 × 20 1/2 in.)
    overall: 76.2 × 66.04 × 1.27 cm (30 × 26 × 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2002.119.79

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Irving Penn; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

center verso in graphite: 2069 (circled) / 5 Moroccan Women (1971) (underlined) / Rives Paper on aluminum / Multiple coating and Printing / (1) Platinum-palladium / (2) Platinum-palladium / Print made March 1979; right of center in graphite: 8/40; artist's copyright stamp with graphite addition: 1979; stamp: Hand-coated by the photographer; with graphite addition: Irving Penn; stamp: In addition to 40 (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: SAS

Wikidata ID

Q64155352

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