View of Fez, Morocco

Photography and Media

1951, printed 1951/53

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Irving Penn
Title: View of Fez, Morocco
Origin: United States
Date: Made 1951
Medium: Gelatin silver print; edition of 22
Inscriptions: Stamped and inscribed verso: “REF. 9862”; inscribed verso: “..”; inscribed verso: “VIEW OF FEZ, (MOROCCO, 1951) [in a box]”; stamped and inscribed verso: “PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1951–Renewed 1979 by IRVING PENN / COURTESY OF THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS INC. / not to be reproduced without written permission of the / copyright owner.”; stamped and inscribed verso: “SIGNED, SILVER PRINTS OF / THIS NEGATIVE NOT EXCEEDING 22.”; signed and stamped verso: “Irving Penn / IRVING PENN [in a circle]”; inscribed verso: “Print made 1951/1953./ IP.”
Dimensions: 32.5 × 22.2 cm (image); 35.4 × 28 cm (paper)
Credit Line: Gift of Irving Penn
Reference Number: 1996.255
Copyright: Copyright Condé Nast Publications, Inc.

Westerbeck, Colin. 1997. “Irving Penn: A Career in Photography.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Bulfinch Press. p. 181, cat. 82.

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)

Given by the artist to the Art Institute, 1996.

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