Inscription
on verso, signed by artist, center in graphite, encircled: Irving Penn; by artist, upper center in graphite: Arches Paper on Aluminum / Single Coating, Multiple Printing (of 2 color components) / 1 [encircled] Palladium-iridium / Print made 1973; center right, encircled: Experimental print, gift to Pat McCabe / Irving Penn [encircled] / Christmas 1973; typed label, adhered to back of mount, center: Sunken Rowboat / Photograph by Irving Penn / Copyright 1966 by / Cowles Communications, Inc. / Not to be reproduced without written / permission of the copyright owner.; stamped, lower center in black ink: Hand-coated by the photographer / There are also in existence a number of silver prints not exceeding 0 / Deacidified
Provenance
(Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York); NGA purchase, 2010.