Vogue Magazine Cover

1950

Irving Penn American, 1917-2009

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Title Vogue Magazine Cover

Artwork Date 1950

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

Dimensions Image: 22 1/4 × 18 1/2 inches (56.5 × 47 cm)

Classification Photographs

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Mary Martin Semmes Fund, Laura H. Murphy Fund

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. F80.176

Markings

Signed Signed and numbered on verso: Irving Penn 15/34

Inscriptions In pencil, upper center, verso: BLACAK AND WHITE VOGUE COVER / P1661 [encircled with pencil] / Platinum-palladium [stamp, in grey ink] Deacidified / Print made November 1976 / 15/34

Marks Stamp, in gray ink, center verso: Hand-coated by the photographer Stamp, in gray ink, center left: In addition to 34 numbered prints of this image | in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver | prints not exceeding a total of 16 may exist Stamp, in gray ink, center right: Photograph by Irving Penn | copyright 1950 by | THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS INC. | Not to be reproduced without | written permission of the | copyright owner

Provenance

before 1980, Edwynn Houk Gallery (New York, New York, USA)

1980-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Photographs from Detroit Collections. Detroit, 1983, p. 37 (fig. 18).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Irving Penn, Vogue Magazine Cover, 1950, platinum palladium print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Mary Martin Semmes Fund, Laura H. Murphy Fund, F80.176.