Cocoa-Colored Balenciaga Dress (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn), Paris

1950, 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: 49.53 × 48.9 cm (19 1/2 × 19 1/4 in.)
    sheet (visible): 51.22 × 50.8 cm (20 3/16 × 20 in.)
    overall: 76.2 × 66.04 × 1.27 cm (30 × 26 × 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2002.119.41

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Irving Penn; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

center verso in graphite: 2500 (circled) / Balenciaga / (Paris 1950) / Cocoa Dress (L.F.-P.)/ Rives Paper on aluminum / Multiple coating and Printing / 1) Platinum-palladium / 2) Platinum - palladium / Print made November - December 1979; artist's copyright stamp with graphite addition: 1950; stamp: Hand-coated by the photographer; with graphite addition: Irving Penn; right of center in graphite: 2/50; lower center verso stamp: In addition to 50 (graphite addition) numbered prints of this image / in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver / prints not exceeding a total of 7 (graphite addition) may exist.; lower left in graphite: IP8; lower right in graphite: A(circled)3

Wikidata ID

Q64155355

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