Seated Warrior--Sitting Girl, Cameroon

1969, 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: 54.93 × 48.9 cm (21 5/8 × 19 1/4 in.)
    sheet (visible): 56.83 × 50.8 cm (22 3/8 × 20 in.)
    overall: 76.2 × 66.04 × 1.27 cm (30 × 26 × 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2002.119.69

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Irving Penn; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

center verso in graphite: 2024 (circled) / Cameroon, Seated Warrioer, Sitting Girl (underlined) / Rives Paper on Aluminum / Platinum, palladium. Single coating, multiple printing. / Print made May 1979. / 11/25; artist's copyright stamp with graphite addition: 1969; stamp: Hand-coated by the photographer; with graphite addition: Irving Penn; stamp: In addition to 25 (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: TM

Wikidata ID

Q64155384

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