Mascara Wars, 2001

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Medium

chromogenic print

Dimensions

image: 39.9 × 60.9 cm (15 11/16 × 24 in.)

sheet: 54.8 × 76 cm (21 9/16 × 29 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of The Irving Penn Foundation, in Honor of the 25th Anniversary of Photography at the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

2015.37.1

Artists / Makers

Irving Penn (artist) American, 1917 - 2009

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Inscription

on verso, center left stamped in black ink: REP.; by unknown hand, center left in graphite: 20630; by unknown hand, center in graphite: MASCARA WARS / (NEW YORK, APRIL 17, 2001.); center in graphite: 2011; center copyright stamped in black ink: THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS INC. / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright owner.; by unknown hand, center right in graphite circled: Irving Penn; center right stamped in black ink: IRVING PENN; center right in graphite: Print made November 2001 / IP.; lower right stamped in black ink: Signed, Fuji Crystal Archive prints / of this image not exceeding 15; lower right in graphite: IP

Provenance

Irving Penn, New York; The Irving Penn Foundation, New York; gift to NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Penn Foundation

Exhibition History

2015: Celebrating Photography at the National Gallery of Art: Recent Gifts, Washington, DC, November 1, 2015–February 28, 2016