Jean Cocteau, Paris

1948, printed 1977

Irving Penn

Artist, American, 1917 - 2009

Irving Penn

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    platinum/palladium print on Bienfang paper mounted on aluminum, 1977

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Irving Penn

  • Dimensions

    image: 36.83 × 31.91 cm (14 1/2 × 12 9/16 in.)
    sheet (visible): 37.31 × 33.66 cm (14 11/16 × 13 1/4 in.)
    overall: 66.04 × 55.88 × 1.27 cm (26 × 22 × 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2002.119.29

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Irving Penn; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

center verso in graphite: 800 (circled) / Cocteau (in square) (Paris) / BF 360 Paper on Aluminum / Multiple Coating and Printing / (1) Platinum / (2) Platinum-palladium / Print made February-March 1977; right of center: 5/35; stamp: Hand-coated by the photographer; with graphite addition: Irving Penn; center: artist's copyright stamp with graphite addition: 1949; lower center: stamp: In addition to 35 (graphite addition) numbered prints of this image / in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver / prints not exceeding a total of 15 (graphite addition) may exist; upper right in graphite: BC.

Wikidata ID

Q64155280

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