David Smith

Date1964

Artist Irving Penn (American, 1917-2009)

CultureAmerican

MediumPlatinum-palladium print, printed 1969, mounted on aluminum

EditionEdition 2 of 16

DimensionsImage: 15 3/4 x 15 7/16 in. (40 x 39.2 cm)

Credit LineGift of Ann Rasmussen Kinney, class of 1953

On View

Not on view

Period20th

Classification(s)

Photograph

SignedOn verso, signed center in pencil: [within a circular outline] Irving Penn

InscribedOn verso, by artist, center in pencil: [within a circular outline] 267 / Wiggins Teape Paper on aluminum / multiple coatings and [word illegible] / [number within a circular outline] 1 Palladium-iridium / [number within a circular outline] 2 Platinum-palladium / Print made July – August 1969 / [signature]. On verso, by unidentified hand, upper-right center in pencil: 2/16. On verso, center on typed label: [underlined] DAVID SMITH / Photograph by Irving Penn / Copyright © 1965 by / The Conde Nast Publications Inc. / Not to be reproduced without written permission of the copyright owner.

MarkingsOn verso, stamped center in ink: Hand-coated by the photographer; lower-right center: Deacidified to pH 8.5-9.5; lower left-center: In addition to [number written in pencil] 16 numbered prints of this image in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver prints not exceeding a total of [number written in pencil] 15 may exist.

ProvenanceMarlborough Gallery, NY;
Purchased by Gilbert H. Kinney and Ann R. Kinney, 1977

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