Tambul Warrior, New Guinea, 1970

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Medium

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

Dimensions

overall: 49.9 x 49.7 cm (19 5/8 x 19 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Irving Penn

Accession Number

2002.119.76

Artists / Makers

Irving Penn (artist) American, 1917 - 2009

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Inscription

Center verso in graphite: 175 (circled) / (New Guinea 1970) / Tambul Warrior (underlined) / Rives Paper on aluminum / Multiple Coating and Printing / (1) Platinum / (2) Platinum-palladium / Print made June 1979; right of center in graphite: 12/25; 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 25 (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: VAL

Provenance

Irving Penn; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Penn, Irving