Louis Jouvet (A), New York

Photography and Media

January 1951, printed c. 1951

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Irving Penn
Title: Louis Jouvet (A), New York
Origin: United States
Date: Made 1951
Medium: Gelatin silver print; edition of 10
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso: “REF 9193”; inscribed verso: “..”; inscribed verso: “LOUIS JOUVET / NEW YORK, JAN. 1951 [in a box]”; stamped and inscribed verso: “PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1952 by / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS LTD. / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright owner.”; signed and stamped verso: “Irving Penn / IRVING PENN [in a circle]”; inscribed verso: “Print made near to date of / photographic sitting / IP.”; stamped and inscribed verso: “SIGNED, SILVER PRINTS OF / THIS NEGATIVE NOT EXCEEDING 10.”
Dimensions: 33.8 × 34.4 cm (image/paper); 42.8 × 43.2 cm (mount)
Credit Line: Gift of Irving Penn
Reference Number: 1996.209
Copyright: Copyright Condé Nast Publications, Ltd.

Penn, Irving. 1960. “Moments Preserved.” Simon and Schuster. p. 28. (other print of this image)
Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Turin. 1975. “I platini di Irving Penn: 25 anni di fotografia.” Exh. cat. Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna/Ages Arti Grafiche. p. 26. (other print of this image)
Printemps des Artes de Monte-Carlo, Monaco. 1986. “Irving Penn.” Exh. cat. Printemps des Artes de Monte-Carlo. 1986. “Irving Penn.” Exh. cat. Printemps des Artes de Monte-Carlo. pl. 15. (other print of this image)
Penn, Irving. 1991. “Passage: A Work Record.” Knopf. p. 110. (other print of this image)
Westerbeck, Colin. 1997. “Irving Penn: A Career in Photography.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Bulfinch Press. p. 115, cat. 74, pl. 65.

Art Institute of Chicago, “Irving Penn, A Career in Photography,” November 22, 1997–February 1, 1998; traveled to St. Petersburg, Russia, State Hermitage Museum, March 1–May 16, 1998; Hamburg, Germany, Deichtorhallen, June 18–September 6, 1998; Munich, Germany, Müchner Stadtmuseum, October 6, 1998–February 21, 1999; San Francisco, California, Friends of Photography/Ansel Adams Center for Photography, November 11, 1999–January 23, 2000; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 25–June 4, 2000; Paris, France, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, September 13–November 5, 2000. (Colin Westerbeck)
London, England, National Portrait Gallery, “Irving Penn Portraits,” February 18–May 30, 2010; traveled to the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, July 1-September 19, 2010. (Magda Keaney)

Given by the artist to the Art Institute, 1996.

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