Vintage Print: VP051889
Irving Penn
1986 Vintage Irving Penn Lion Skull Prague Engraving Art 13x10
Print Method: Lithograph
(Multiple plates, multiple ink tones, photographic lithograph)
Color / B&W: Black & White
Print Year: 1996
Origin: USA
Orientation: Landscape
Image Height: 5.91 ins.
Image Width: 7.28 ins.
(New) Mount & Mat Board: 100% Cotton, Acid Free, Museum Grade Mount Board.
Mount Height: 10.0 ins.
Mount Width: 13.0 ins.
Standard Frame: 13 by 10
Frame Ready
The mount size for print VP051889 is a standard frame size 13.0 ins wide x 10.0 ins high, which allows you to save money on expensive, custom framing. Please note: this print is also fully matted, making it genuinely frame ready (Although we cannot change the size of the print, if you prefer a different size mount to fit a particular frame size, please contact us before ordering. No charge). The mount and mat are brand new.
Artist: Irving Penn
BIO
Born: Plainfield, New Jersey, USA, 1917
Died: 2009
Irving Penn Foundation
" ... Irving Penn was one of the twentieth century's great photographers, known for his arresting images and masterful printmaking. Although he was celebrated as one of Vogue magazine's top photographers for more than sixty years, Penn was an intensely private man who avoided the limelight and pursued his work with quiet and relentless dedication ... "
Wikipedia
" ... Penn worked for three years as a freelance designer taking his first amateur photographs before taking Brodovitch's position as the art director at Saks Fifth Avenue in 1940. Penn remained at Saks Fifth Avenue for a year before leaving to spend a year painting and taking photographs in Mexico and across the US. When Penn returned to New York, Alexander Liberman offered him a position as an associate in Vogue magazine's Art Department. Penn worked on layout for the magazine before Liberman asked him to try photography ... "
Artnet
" ... an American photographer known for both his commercial and fine art work. Using both large format and 35mm cameras, he regularly turned his lens on street debris, animal skulls, and flowers, in addition to his glamorous images of celebrities. “I share with many people the feeling that there is a sweetness and constancy to light that falls into a studio from the north sky that sets it beyond any other illumination,” he once reflected. “It is a light of such penetrating clarity that even a simple object lying by chance in such a light takes on an inner glow, almost a voluptuousness.” ... "
Smithsonian
" ... In a career that spanned nearly seventy years, Penn’s aesthetic and technical skill earned him accolades in both the artistic and commercial worlds. He was a master of both black-and-white and color photography, and his revival of platinum printing in the 1960s and 1970s was a catalyst for significant change in the art world. He was one of the first photographers to cross the chasm that separated magazine and fine art photography, narrowing the gap between art and fashion ... "
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Lithograph Process
Principle of Lithography (Wikipedia)
" ... Lithography uses simple chemical processes to create an image. For instance, the positive part of an image is a water-repelling ("hydrophobic") substance, while the negative image would be water-retaining ("hydrophilic"). Thus, when the plate is introduced to a compatible printing ink and water mixture, the ink will adhere to the positive image and the water will clean the negative image. This allows a flat print plate to be used, enabling much longer and more detailed print runs than the older physical methods of printing (e.g., intaglio printing, letterpress printing) ... "
Lithography Process (Tate)
" ... Offset lithography involves printing the image onto an intermediate surface before the final sheet. The process is ‘offset’ because the plate does not come in direct contact with the paper, which preserves the quality of the plate. With offset lithography, the image is reversed twice, and appears on the final sheet the same way round as on the stone or plate ... "
Collector Info
Authenticity
Vintage Print: VP051889 is a genuine, original Lithograph print. It is not a modern copy of any kind nor a digital reprint. It is an authentic vintage print made in 1996.
Rear Mounted Label
The print mount comes with a label fixed to the reverse side of the archival mount-board. The label contains the information needed to confirm the authenticity of the print.
There is a QR code on the label which you can scan to go directly to your database page without having to enter the vintage id.
The label has a tamper proof, security hologram with a Security ID. The Security ID on the hologram matches the Security ID on the label.
Certificate of Authenticity
Vintage Print: VP051889 comes with a signed letter certifying its authenticity.
The letter also contains a copy of the label from the back of the print mount (see above) and a matching tamper proof, security hologram with matching Security ID.
Tamper Proof Hologram
The matching, tamper proof security holograms on the letter of authenticity and the rear mounted label hold the Security ID confirming the authenticity of this collector piece.
Watermark
The VPP watermark in the Ebay Listing is not on the original print and has been added digitally to the listing photo to prevent copying.