Nude No. 111, New York

Photography and Media

1949/50, printed 1949/50

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

Currently Off View: Photography and Media

Artist: Irving Penn
Title: Nude No. 111, New York
Origin: United States
Date: Made 1949–1950
Medium: Gelatin silver print; edition of 3
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso: “REF. 10856”; inscribed verso: “SZE [in a circle]”; inscribed verso: “NUDE 111 [in a circle]”; inscribed verso: “..”; inscribed verso: “19187P-19/SN 1036”; signed and stamped verso: “Irving Penn / PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN [in a circle]”; stamped verso: “COPYRIGHT / NOT TO BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT / WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS INC.”; stamped verso: “Copyright © 1980 by Irving Penn. May not be reproduced without written permission / of Irving Penn and/or the Condé Nast Publications Inc.”; stamped verso: “Photograph / by / PENN”; inscribed verso: “[arrow pointing up] / 12” neg / [arrow pointing down]”; stamped and inscribed verso; “One of no more than 7 [crossed out] 3 (AS OF 1994) signed silver / prints of this negative. Each print / differs somewhat from the others. / Negative and print made 1949-1950. / I.P.”
Dimensions: 38.9 × 40.3 cm (image); 50.6 × 40.3 cm (paper)
Credit Line: Gift of Irving Penn
Reference Number: 1996.286
Copyright: Copyright The Irving Penn Foundation

Penn, Irving. 1991. “Passage: A Work Record.” Knopf. p. 67. (other print of this image)
Lundström, Jan-Erik. 1995. “Irving Penn fotografier: en donation till mine av Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn/Irving Penn Photographs: A Donation in Memory of Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn.” Exh. cat. Moderna Museet/Raster Förlag. p. 253. (other print of this image)
Westerbeck, Colin. 1997. “Irving Penn: A Career in Photography.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Bulfinch Press. p. 178, cat. 55.

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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