Enga Woman and Two Young Girls, New Guinea

1970

Irving Penn

Artist, American, 1917 - 2009

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    platinum/palladium print on Wiggins Teape paper mounted on aluminum, 1972

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Irving Penn

  • Dimensions

    image: 53.98 × 47.63 cm (21 1/4 × 18 3/4 in.)
    sheet (visible): 55.88 × 49.53 cm (22 × 19 1/2 in.)
    overall: 76.2 × 66.04 × 1.27 cm (30 × 26 × 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2002.119.70

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Irving Penn; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

Center verso: graphite: 812/Wiggins-Teape Paper on aluminum/Multiple coating and printing/(1)Platinum/(2)Platinum-palladium/Print made summer 1972/5/5; stamp: Irving Penn/Irving Penn (graphite); paper label typescript: Enga Woman & 2 Girls (New Guinea)(1970) (graphite)/Photograph by Irving Penn/Copyright c 1974 (graphite) by/Irving Penn, courtesy of Vogue (graphite)/Not to be reproduced without written/permission of the copyright owner./and The Conde Nast Publications Inc.; stamp: Hand-coated by the photographer with graphite addition: Irving Penn/IP; stamp: In addition to 5 (graphite) numbered prints of this image/in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver/prints not exceeding a total of 19 (graphite) may exist.; u.r.: RF

Wikidata ID

Q64155347

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