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Irving Penn
Two Guedras, Morocco, 1971
10yr Price history
$36,038
$****** - ******
Irving Penn
Two Guedras, Morocco
10yr Price history
$36,038
$****** - ******
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Last Sale Date
Title
Edition No.
Last Sale
Last Sale Auction House
Last Sale Location
Oct 26, 2023
Guedras in the Wind (Morocco)
27
Christie's
Paris
Oct 5, 2020
Two Guedras, Morocco
25
Christie's
New York
Oct 2, 2020
'TWO GUEDRAS, MOROCCO'
Sotheby's
New York
Sep 30, 2020
Four Guedras, Morocco
Christie's
New York
Sep 25, 2020
Three Rissani Women with Bread
Phillips
London
Apr 3, 2020
'TWO GUEDRAS'
Sotheby's
New York
Dec 17, 2019
Guedras in the Wind, Morocco
18
Bonhams
New York
Oct 25, 2019
Woman with three loaves, Morocco (B), 1971
Phillips
London
Oct 2, 2019
Two Guedras, Morocco
10
Christie's
New York
Apr 5, 2019
'TWO GUEDRAS', 1971
8
Sotheby's
New York
Nov 8, 2018
Two Women in Black, with Bread, Morocco
5
Christie's
Paris
Apr 9, 2018
Two Women in Black with Bread, Morocco
20
Phillips
New York
Apr 7, 2018
Four Guedras, Morocco
18
Christie's
New York
Nov 10, 2017
TWO GUEDRAS, 1971
37
Sotheby's
Paris
Oct 3, 2017
Guedras in the Wind
15
Phillips
New York
Apr 6, 2016
Two Guedras, Morocco, 1972
3
Christie's
New York
Oct 8, 2015
Two Women in Black with Bread, Morocco
15
Phillips
New York
Nov 21, 2014
Woman with three loaves, Morocco
Bloomsbury Auctions
London
Sep 29, 2014
2 Guedras, 1974
1
Christie's
New York
May 8, 2014
Two Guedras, Morocco
Phillips
London
Apr 1, 2014
Three Rissani Women with Bread, 1971
8
Phillips
New York
Apr 1, 2014
Woman with three loaves (Morocco), 1971
1
Phillips
New York
Nov 7, 2013
Woman with three loaves, Morocco (B)
Phillips
London
Oct 3, 2013
Two Women in Black with Bread, Morocco
19
Christie's
New York
Sep 30, 2013
Three Rissani Women with Bread (Morocco)
19
Phillips
New York
Apr 5, 2013
4 Guedras (Morocco)
1
Christie's
New York
Nov 13, 2012
Two women in black with bread, Morocco
Millon & Associes
Paris
Oct 4, 2012
Two Rissani Women, One with Bread, One with Child (Morocco)
Christie's
New York
Apr 5, 2012
Two Guedras
28
Christie's
New York
Nov 12, 2011
Three Rissani Women with Bread, Morocco
Christie's
Paris
May 10, 2011
Two Guedras, Morocco
12814
Sotheby's
Paris
May 21, 2010
Two Guedras, Morocco
Christie's
South Kensington
Apr 14, 2010
2 Guedras
33
Christie's
New York
Apr 14, 2010
Four Guedras (Morocco)
6
Christie's
New York
Nov 20, 2009
Three Rissani Women With Bread
Sotheby's
Paris
Nov 14, 2009
Two Guedras, Morocco
36
Phillips
New York
Oct 9, 2009
Two Guedras, Morocco
Sotheby's
New York
May 19, 2009
Three Women of Rissani, Morocco
24
Bonhams
New York
Oct 16, 2008
Two Guedras, Morocco
30
Phillips
New York
Nov 7, 2007
Two Guedras, Morocco
Bonhams
Paris
May 29, 2007
Two Guedras, Morocco
Sotheby's
London
Nov 14, 2006
Three women of Rissani, Morocco
Sotheby's
London
Oct 17, 2006
Three Rissani women with bread, two standing, Morocco
Christie's
New York
Oct 17, 2006
Guedras in the wind
Christie's
New York
Apr 24, 2006
Three Moroccan women and a baby, 1971
Christie's
New York
Apr 24, 2006
Three women of Rissani, Morocco
Christie's
New York
Oct 12, 2005
Two Guedras
Christie's
New York
May 19, 2004
Two guedras, Morocco
Christie's
London
Oct 17, 2003
Two Guedras
4
Sotheby's
New York
Apr 5, 2000
Three Rissani women with bread, two standing, Morocco
Christie's
New York
Artwork Description
Category
photographs
Dimensions
66 x 55.9 cm (26 x 22 in)
Materials
platinum-palladium print, mounted on aluminum
Signature
signed, titled, dated and numbered "25/40" and "1355" in pencil, stamped photographer"s/Condé Nast credit and stamped edition information (flush mount, verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed exhibition labels (frame backing board)
Provenance
Christie"s East, New York, November 11, 1985, lot 355;
Janet Borden, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1985.
Exhibited
Arles, Recontres de la Photographie; Lausanne, Musée de l"Élysée, Sans Regard or No Eyes: Photographs from W.M. Hunt / Collection Dancing Bear, 2005-2006.
Ocala, Appelton Museum of Fine Arts, The Unseen Eye: Photography from the Collection of W.M. Hunt, November 7, 2010-January 2, 2011.
Rochester, George Eastman House, The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection , October 1, 2011-February 19, 2012.
Literature
Irving Penn, Worlds in a Small Room , Penguin Books, New York, 1980, front cover and p. 83.
John Szarkowski, Irving Penn , Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984, n.p.
Irving Penn, Passage: A Work Record , Knopf/Callaway, New York, 1991, p. 199.
Sarah Greenough, Irving Penn: Platinum Prints , National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2005, pl. 61.
Description
IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Two Guedras, Morocco, 1971
platinum-palladium print, mounted on aluminum, printed 1976
signed, titled, dated and numbered "25/40" and "1355" in pencil, stamped photographer"s/Condé Nast credit and stamped edition information (flush mount, verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed exhibition labels (frame backing board)
image: 21 x 17 in. (53.3 x 43.1 cm.)
sheet: 24 3 / 4 x 22 in. (62.8 x 55.8 cm.)
mount: 26 x 22 in. (66 x 55.8 cm.)
This work is number twenty-five from an edition of forty.