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Irving Penn — New Guinea Man and Child with White Faces, New Guinea
Irving Penn

New Guinea Man and Child with White Faces, New Guinea

1983

A portrait photograph of a New Guinea man and child with white-painted faces, mounted on aluminum and numbered as part of a limited edition of 19. Created in 1983, this anthropological work reflects Penn's interest in cultural documentation.

Medium
Signed, titled, dated, numbered 5/19, annotated in pencil, credit, and Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation on the reverse of the aluminum flush-mount.
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Auction House · Phillips

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Visual Language: The Art of Irving Penn

October 8, 2025

Lot 31

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Irving Penn, New Guinea Man and Child with White Faces, New Guinea, 1983

A portrait photograph of a New Guinea man and child with white-painted faces, mounted on aluminum and numbered as part of a limited edition of 19. Created in 1983, this anthropological work reflects Penn's interest in cultural documentation.

Medium
Signed, titled, dated, numbered 5/19, annotated in pencil, credit, and Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation on the reverse of the aluminum flush-mount.
Year
1983
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

New Guinea, Cultural Documentation, Numbered Edition, Faces, 1983, Irving Penn, Ethnography, Portrait, Aluminum Mount, Indigenous

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