Rochas Mermaid Dress (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn), Paris

1950, printed 1980

Irving Penn

Artist, American, 1917 - 2009

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    platinum/palladium print on Rives BFK paper mounted on aluminum, 1980

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Irving Penn

  • Dimensions

    image: 49.85 × 49.37 cm (19 5/8 × 19 7/16 in.)
    sheet (visible): 51.59 × 51.44 cm (20 5/16 × 20 1/4 in.)
    overall: 76.2 × 66.04 × 1.27 cm (30 × 26 × 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2002.119.45

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Irving Penn; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

center verso in graphite: 2627 (circled); Paris 1950 / Mermaid Dress (Rochas) (underlined) / Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn / Rives Paper on Aluminum; Multiple coating and Printing / (1) Platinum-palladium / (2) Platinum-palladium / Print made May-June 1980; right of center 22/25; center verso: artist's copyright stamp with graphite addition: 1950; center verso, stamp: Hand-coated by the photographer; with graphite addition: Irving Penn; lower center verso, 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 7 (graphite addition) may exist.; upper right in graphite: G.M

Wikidata ID

Q64155381

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