Two Warriors Holding Hands, New Guinea, 1970

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Medium

platinum/palladium print on Rives BFK paper mounted on aluminum, 1979

Dimensions

overall: 40.3 x 40.3 cm (15 7/8 x 15 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Irving Penn

Accession Number

2002.119.78

Artists / Makers

Irving Penn (artist) American, 1917 - 2009

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Inscription

center verso in graphite: 1926 (circled) / 2 New Guinea Warriors Holding Hands (1970) (underlined) / Rives Paper on Aluminum / Multiple coating and Printing (1) Platinum-palladium / (2) Platinum-palladium / Print made March 1979; right of center: 3/31; center: artist's copyright stamp with graphite addition: 1979; stamp: Hand-coated by the photographer; with graphite addition: Irving Penn (circled); stamp: In addition to 31 (graphite addition) numbered prints of this image / in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver / prints not exceeding a total of 0 (graphite addition) may exist; upper right in graphite: J.W.

Provenance

Irving Penn; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Penn, Irving