Ballet Society, New York, 1948, printed 1980

Not on View

Medium

platinum/palladium print on Rives BFK paper mounted on aluminum

Dimensions

overall: 57.6 x 46.7 cm (22 11/16 x 18 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Irving Penn

Accession Number

2002.119.25

Artists / Makers

Irving Penn (artist) American, 1917 - 2009

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Inscription

center verso in graphite: 2616 (circled) / Ballet Society (underlined) / 14/15 / Rives Paper on Aluminum / Multiple Coating and Printing / (1) Platinum-palladium / (2) Platinum-palladium / Print made June-July 1980; center verso: artist's copyright stamp with graphite addition: 1948 renewed 1976; stamp: Hand-coated by the photographer; with graphite addition: Irving Penn; stamp: In addition to 15 (graphite addition) numbered prints of this image / in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed silver / prints not exceeding a total of 13 (graphite addition) may exist.; lower right in graphite: IP.241.Y; upper right in graphite: JK

Provenance

Irving Penn; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Penn, Irving

Exhibition History

2015: In Light of the Past: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 3 – July 26, 2015