
Four Guedras, Morocco
1985
This striking photograph by Irving Penn captures four Guedra performers from Morocco, showcasing Penn's masterful ability to blend ethnographic documentation with high artistic sensibility. The image reflects Penn's celebrated cross-cultural portraiture work, in which he brought the same meticulous compositional precision to indigenous and traditional subjects as he did to his iconic fashion and celebrity photography. As part of a numbered edition of 18, this aluminum flush-mounted print represents the intersection of fine art and documentary traditions that defined Penn's distinguished career.
- Medium
- Signed, initialed, titled, dated, numbered 18/18, annotated in pencil, credit, copyright credit (courtesy Vogue) Condé Nast reproduction limitation and edition stamps on the reverse of the aluminum flush-mount.
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
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Photographs
October 4, 2018
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