Man with Pink Face, New Guinea

1970, printed 1978

Irving Penn

Artist, American, 1917 - 2009

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    platinum/palladium print on Arches paper mounted on aluminum, 1978

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Irving Penn

  • Dimensions

    image: 50.17 × 48.9 cm (19 3/4 × 19 1/4 in.)
    sheet (visible): 51.75 × 50.48 cm (20 3/8 × 19 7/8 in.)
    overall: 76.2 × 66.04 × 1.27 cm (30 × 26 × 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2002.119.73

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Irving Penn; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

Center verso in graphite: 1626 (circled) / Man with Pink Face (underlined) / (New Guinea) / Arches Paper on aluminum / Platinum-palladium / Single coating multiple printing / Print made April, 1978.; right of center in graphite: 38/49; stamp: artist's copyright stamp with graphite addition: 1971; stamp: Hand-coated by the photographer; with graphite addition: Irving Penn (circled); stamp: In addition to 49 (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.; lower right in graphite on tape: #3 (circled) / 21%; upper right in graphite: VAL

Wikidata ID

Q64155373

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