Lot 30. Irving Penn (American • 1917 - 2009), Single Oriental Poppy, New York, 1968. Estimate £50,000 - 70,000. Courtesy Phillips.

Dye transfer print, printed 1989. Approximately 54.4 x 43.1 cm (21 3/8 x 16 7/8 in.). Signed, initialled, titled, dated in pencil, Condé Nast copyright credit (courtesy Vogue) reproduction limitation and edition stamps on the verso. From an edition of 18.

Provenance: Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
Private Collection, Los Angeles

Literature: Flowers: Photographs by Irving Penn, New York: Harmony Books, 1980, p. 17
J. Szarkowski, Irving Penn, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1984, pl. 131
I. Penn, Passage: A Work Record, New York: Knopf, 1991, p. 176
Irving Penn: Flowers, Hamiltons Gallery, London, 2015, pl. 20
Irving Penn: Centennial, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2017, back cover and p. 311

Catalogue Essay: ' …the reader will probably note my preference for flowers considerably after they have passed that point of perfection, when they have already begun spotting and browning and twisting on their back to the earth.' Irving Penn.

Phillips. PHOTOGRAPHS LONDON AUCTION 2 NOVEMBER 2017