Moroccan Child with Lamb, 1971
1978
A striking black-and-white portrait by Irving Penn, this 1971 photograph captures an intimate moment between a Moroccan child and a lamb, rendered with Penn's characteristic precision and quiet emotional depth. The image reflects Penn's celebrated ethnographic work of the period, in which he traveled to remote cultures to document subjects with dignified simplicity against neutral backdrops. This rare print, numbered 3/16 and flush-mounted on aluminum, bears Penn's signature and Condé Nast stamps, affirming its place within his rigorously controlled and highly collectible limited edition body of work.
- Medium
- Signed, titled, dated, numbered 3/16, annotated in pencil, Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps on the reverse of the aluminum flush-mount.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
A Constant Pursuit: Photographs from the Collection of Ed Cohen & Victoria Shaw
October 4, 2018
Artists in conversation
August Sander
German · b. 1876
Sander's landmark documentary portrait series captured ordinary people with the same dignified simplicity and neutral backdrop approach Penn employed in Morocco, presenting subjects with unflinching precision and deep humanist respect across cultural and social categories.
Sebastião Salgado
Brazilian · b. 1944
Salgado's luminous black and white ethnographic photography documents children and communities in remote cultures with the same emotional depth and formal precision seen in Penn's Moroccan work, often pairing human subjects with animals to evoke intimate bonds and quiet dignity.
Richard Avedon
American · b. 1923
Avedon's In the American West series shares Penn's method of isolating subjects against plain backdrops to achieve striking portraiture with psychological depth, bringing the same editorial mastery and humanist attention to overlooked or culturally specific subjects.
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