Five Okapa Warriors, New Guinea, 1970

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Medium

platinum/palladium print on Bienfang paper mounted on aluminum, 1978

Dimensions

overall: 49.9 x 49.5 cm (19 5/8 x 19 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Irving Penn

Accession Number

2002.119.71

Artists / Makers

Irving Penn (artist) American, 1917 - 2009

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Inscription

Center verso in graphite: 1230 (circled) / Okapa Warriors (underlined) (New Guinea) / BF Paper on Aluminum / Multiple coating and Printing / (1) Platinum-palladium / (2) Platinum-palladium / Print made May-June 1978; left of center in graphite: 9/35; stamp: artist's copyright stamp with graphite addition: 1974; stamp: Hand-coated by the photographer; with graphite addition: Irving Penn (circled); 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 20 (graphite addition) may exist.; upper right in graphite: RM

Provenance

Irving Penn; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Penn, Irving