Sitting Man with Pink Face (New Guinea 1970)

1970, printed 1979

Irving Penn American, 1917-2009

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Title Sitting Man with Pink Face (New Guinea 1970)

Artwork Date 1970, printed 1979

Artist Irving Penn

Life Dates 1917-2009

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Platinum palladium print flush-mounted on aluminum

Dimensions Image: 20 5/8 × 19 3/8 inches (52.4 × 49.2 cm) Sheet: 20 3/4 × 19 1/2 inches (52.7 × 49.5 cm) Mount: 26 × 22 1/8 inches (66 × 56.2 cm)

Classification Photographs

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Lawrence K. and Maxine Snider

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. F1986.127

Markings

Signed Signed, in pencil, lower center right, verso: Irving Penn

Inscriptions Inscribed, in pencil, upper center, verso: 1989 [encircled] Inscribed, in pencil, center, verso: SITTING MAN WITH PINK FACE (NEW GUINEA 1990) | Rives Paper on Aluminum | Multiple coating and Printing | 1) Platinum palladium | 2) Platinum palladium | Print made January February, 1979 Inscribed, in pencil, center right, verso: 24/50 Inscribed, in pencil, lower left, verso: BJJ - 59, 1

Marks Stamped, in black ink, center verso: PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN | Copyright 1979 by Irving Penn | Not to be reproduced without | written permission of the | copyright owner and | THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS INC. Stamped, in black ink, center, verso: Deacidified Stamped, in black ink, center, verso: Hand-coated by the photographer Stamped, in black ink, lower center verso: In addition to 50 numbered prints of this image | in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver | prints not exceeding a total of 5 may exist.

Provenance

Lawrence K. and Maxine Snider

1986-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Irving Penn Photographs in Platinum Metals - Images 1947-1975. Exh. cat., Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. London, 1977 (cover ill.).

"Recent Acquisitions," Bulletin of the DIA 63, no. 3/4 (1988): p. 59 (ill.).

Westerbeck, Colin, ed. Irving Penn: A Career in Photography. Exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, 1997, pl. 71, cat. no. 107, p.121.

Greenough, Sarah. Irving Penn: Platinum Prints. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. New Haven, 2005, pl. 51.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Irving Penn, Sitting Man with Pink Face (New Guinea 1970), 1970, printed 1979, platinum palladium print flush-mounted on aluminum. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Lawrence K. and Maxine Snider, F1986.127.