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Girl Behind Bottle (Jean Patchett)
Irving Penn (American, 1917–2009)
1949, printed 1978
Medium/Technique
Photograph, platinum-palladium print on a sheet of aluminum
Dimensions
Image: 45.5 x 47.8 cm (17 15/16 x 18 13/16 in.)
Sheet: 60.9 x 51 cm (24 x 20 1/16 in.)
Sheet: 60.9 x 51 cm (24 x 20 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Corkin in memory of Joseph Z. Corkin
Accession Number1995.719
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Photography
ClassificationsPhotographs
DescriptionNew York
InscriptionsInscription on verso, center, in order from top to bottom: Verso, in graphite, ctr.: 1585 / Rives on Aluminum / Girl Behind Bottle / Rives Paper on Aluminum / Single coating, multiple printing / Platinum-palladium / Print made June 1978. Verso, stamped in black ink, ctr.: Photograph by Irving Penn / Copyright ? 1960 by Irving Penn / Not to be reproduced without / permission of the / copyright owner and / The Conde Nast Publications, Inc. Verso, signed in graphite, ctr.: Irving Penn. Verso, stamped in black ink: Hand-coated by the photographer. Verso, stamped in black ink with numbers inserted in graphite: In addition to 33 numbered prints of this image / in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver / prints not exceeding a total of 6 may exist.
ProvenanceCharles Corkin, Littleton, Colorado; gift to MFA September 1995.