Underfoot I

October 27, 1999, printed April 2001

Irving Penn

Artist, American, 1917 - 2009

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Jeffrey Fraenkel and Frish Brandt

  • Dimensions

    image: 44.4 × 51.8 cm (17 1/2 × 20 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 49 × 60.4 cm (19 5/16 × 23 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.186.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Jeffrey Fraenkel, San Francisco; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, lower right in graphite circled: Irving Penn; by artist, top right in graphite: 50; upper left stamped in black ink: REF. [by artist in graphite: 19698]; by artist, center in graphite in square: UNDERFOOT I / (NEW YORK, OCT. 27, 1999); center stamped in black ink: PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © [by artist in black ink: 1999] by Irving Penn / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of / photographer; lower center stamped in black ink: TONED IN: SELENIUM; lower right stamped in black ink: IRVING PENN; by artist, lower right in graphite: Print made April 6, 2001. / IP.; lower right stamped in black ink: VASILIOS ZATSE COLLABORATED CLOSELY / IN MAKING THE PRINT / [by artist in graphite: IP.]; lower right stamped in black ink: [by artist in graphite: 8.] SIGNED SILVER PRINTS OF / THIS NEGATIVE, WITH VARIATIONS / [by artist in graphite: IP]; by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: IP.0408.11


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