Woman with Roses (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn in Lafaurie Dress), Paris, 1950

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Medium

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

Dimensions

overall: 55.1 x 37 cm (21 11/16 x 14 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Irving Penn

Accession Number

2002.119.48

Artists / Makers

Irving Penn (artist) American, 1917 - 2009

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Inscription

center verso in graphite: 42 / Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn / BF 360 Paper on Aluminum / Multiple coating and Printing / (1) Platinum / (2) Platinum-palladium / Print made August-September 1977; left of center: 33/40; center verso: artist's copyright stamp with graphite addition: 1950; center verso stamp: Hand-coated by the photographer; with graphite addition: Irving Penn; lower right verso, stamp: In addition to 40 (graphite addition) numbered prints of this image / in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver / prints not exceeding a total of 25 (graphite addition) may exist.; upper right in graphite: A.S.

Provenance

Irving Penn; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Penn, Irving

Exhibition History

2015: In Light of the Past: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 3 – July 26, 2015