White Masked Cuzco, Peru

1948

Irving Penn American, 1917-2009

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About the Artwork

Title White Masked Cuzco, Peru

Artwork Date 1948

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

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Medium Gelatin silver print

Dimensions Image: 10 1/2 × 10 1/2 inches (26.7 × 26.7 cm) Mount: 13 1/2 × 13 1/4 inches (34.3 × 33.7 cm)

Classification Photographs

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of anonymous donors in memory of Margaret Edwards Gram

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. 1991.1046

Markings

Signed Signed, in black pen and ink, on mount, lower center, verso: Irving Penn

Inscriptions Inscribed, in black pen and ink, on mount, upper center, verso: TWO MEN IN WHITE MASKS | CUZCO, PERU, 1948 Inscribed, in black pen and ink, on mount, lower center, verso: Print made 1984. | IP Inscribed, in black pen and ink, on mount, lower right, verso: RIVES BFK MOUNT

Marks Stamp, in black ink, on mount, upper right, verso: REF. [13172 in black pen and ink] Stamp, in black ink, on mount, center, verso: PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN | Copyright © [1960 (in black pen and ink)] by Irving Penn[, COURTESY OF VOUGE (in black pen and ink)] | written permission of the | copyright owner and | THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS INC. Stamp, in black ink,on mount, center, verso: SIGNED, SILVER PRINTS OF | THIS NEGATIVE NOT EXCEEDING [20. (in black pen and ink)] | TONED IN SELENIUM Stamp, in black ink, on mount, lower center below signature, verso: IRVING PENN

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Laughlin (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA);
1991-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Irving Penn, White Masked Cuzco, Peru, 1948, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of anonymous donors in memory of Margaret Edwards Gram, 1991.1046.