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Apr 2026 · $216K
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Photographs: $20.3K medianSculpture/objects: $23.8K medianWorks on paper: $24.2K medianUnclassified lots: $45.1K medianEditioned photos: $27.9K medianEditioned objects: $7.8K medianPosters/ephemera: $68.5K medianDecorative/non-core: — median
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Prizes & Awards1

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Winner 1985
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Education1

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Publications7

Monograph 2

Yale University Press · 2005

Exhibition Catalog 4

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Phaidon Press · 2024
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Current Exhibitions1

Double Take: Photographs in Pairs

Julie Blackmon, Irving Penn, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, Walker Evans, Yves Klein, Bruce Weber, André Kertész, Steve Schapiro, Ruven Afanador, Patrick Demarchelier, Mary Ellen Mark, Sheila Metzner, Mark Seliger, Miles Aldridge, Peter Lindbergh, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Teun Hocks, Duane Michals, Arthur Elgort, Janette Beckman, Albert Watson, Melvin Sokolsky, Herbert List, John Dominis, Lauren Greenfield, Dan Winters, Harry Bowers, Flor Garduño, Erik Madigan Heck, Frank W. Ockenfels III, Tom Bianchi, Sanford Roth, Harry Shunk, János Kender, Alex Stoddard, Todd Weaver, Nik Wheeler

148 N La Brea Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036, United States

Jun 11, 2026 — Jul 18, 2026

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A new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Lillian Bassman: Harper's Bazaar and Beyond," highlights the pioneering work of fashion photograp…
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A series of portraits by renowned photographer Irving Penn will be auctioned at Christie's New York on April 3rd. The sale features iconic images of m…
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Past Exhibitions24

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Whipped Cream & Other Delights (Fraenkel at Ortuzar)

Nan Goldin, Diane Arbus, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Irving Penn, Eadweard Muybridge, Peter Hujar, Robert Adams (b.1937), Lee Friedlander, Carrie Mae Weems, Wardell Milan, Loewy et Puiseux, Richard T. Walker, Martine Gutierrez

49 Geary St #450, San Francisco, CA 94108, USA

May 8, 2026 — May 21, 2026

Legacy of Light: 200 Years of Photography

Paul Strand, Irving Penn, Man Ray, Ansel Adams, Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bill Brandt, Elliott Erwitt, Mario Giacomelli, Dorothea Lange, Daido Moriyama, Steve Schapiro, Harry Benson, Margaret Bourke-White, Patrick Demarchelier, William Klein, Saul Leiter, Marc Riboud, W. Eugene Smith, Yamamoto Masao, Alexander Rodchenko, Andreas Feininger, Franco Fontana, Horst P. Horst, Tina Modotti, Jeanloup Sieff, Willy Ronis, Steve McCurry, Barry Lategan, Eve Arnold, Thomas Hoepker, Joe Rosenthal, John Dominis, David Bailey, Herbert George Ponting, Leni Riefenstahl, Alberto Korda, Lewis Morley, Rudolf Koppitz, Jürgen Schadeberg, Terence Donovan, Iain Macmillan, Cornell Capa, George Hoyningen-Huene, Harold Edgerton

49 Dorset St, London W1U 7NF, United Kingdom

Mar 27, 2026 — May 30, 2026

Irving Penn, Gstaad

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Gstaad-Saanen Airport, Oeystrasse 29, 3792 Saanen, Switzerland

Feb 14, 2026 — Apr 6, 2026

Irving Penn: Kinship

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Nov 15, 2024 — Feb 13, 2025

Irving Penn Edge of Beauty

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7 Rue Debelleyme, 75003 Paris, France

Jun 22, 2024 — Sep 20, 2024

Irving Penn The Bath

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Mirabellplatz 2, 5020 Salzburg, Austria

Jan 27, 2024 — Mar 13, 2024

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100 34th Ave, San Francisco, CA 94121, USA

Jan 1, 2024

Irving Penn Mar 16 – Jul 21, 2024 de Young Exhibition

Irving Penn Small Trades, 1960s San Francisco, Fashion

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7 Tank House Lane, Toronto, ON M5A 3C4, Canada

Nov 24, 2021 — Feb 22, 2022

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Sep 9, 2021 — Dec 8, 2021

Photographism

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Jan 8, 2021 — Feb 13, 2021

Irving Penn Still Life

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Mirabellplatz 2, 5020 Salzburg, Austria

Jun 8, 2019 — Jul 16, 2019

Irving Penn: Paintings

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13 Carlos Pl, London W1K 2EU, United Kingdom

Nov 28, 2018 — Jan 26, 2019

Irving Penn Worlds in a Small Room, Seen and Unseen

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148 N La Brea Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036, United States

Aug 30, 2018 — Oct 6, 2018

Irving Penn The Flavour of France

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7 Rue Debelleyme, 75003 Paris, France

Oct 19, 2017 — Jan 6, 2018

Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty

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G Street Northwest &, 8th St NW, Washington, DC 20004, USA

Jan 1, 2015

Irving Penn — 2015

Irving Penn: Cranium Architecture

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13 Carlos Pl, London W1K 2EU, United Kingdom

Jun 19, 2013 — Sep 17, 2013

Irving Penn: Cigarettes

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13 Carlos Pl, London W1K 2EU, United Kingdom

Jun 21, 2012 — Aug 14, 2012

Irving Penn: Small Trades

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13 Carlos Pl, London W1K 2EU, United Kingdom

Mar 5, 2010 — Apr 24, 2010

Irving Penn: Food

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13 Carlos Pl, London W1K 2EU, United Kingdom

Nov 27, 2008 — Jan 17, 2009

Irving Penn: Flower Power

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13 Carlos Pl, London W1K 2EU, United Kingdom

Nov 22, 2007 — Jan 1, 2008

Irving Penn: Now and Then

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13 Carlos Pl, London W1K 2EU, United Kingdom

Sep 14, 2006 — Oct 21, 2006

Irving Penn Ethnographic

148 N La Brea Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036, United States

Dec 8, 2005 — Jan 21, 2006

Irving Penn New and Unseen

Irving Penn

148 N La Brea Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036, United States

Dec 2, 1999 — Jan 8, 2000

The Art of Movement: Dance Photographs from the Carol Halsted Collection

Margaret Bourke-White, Edward Steichen, Irving Penn, Annie Leibovitz, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Barbara Morgan, Lotte Jacobi, Philip Trager, Lois Greenfield

1 S High St, Akron, OH 44308, USA

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Art Fair Appearances19

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Art Basel — Basel
2025
Paris Photo — Paris
2025
Paris Photo — Paris
2024
Paris Photo — Paris
2022
The Armory Show — New York
2022
Art Basel — Basel
2021
Paris Photo — Paris
2021
Photo London — London
2021
The Armory Show — New York
2021
Art Basel — Basel
2019
Paris Photo — Paris
2019
artmonte-carlo — Monaco
2018
Seattle Art Fair — Seattle
2018
Art Basel Hong Kong — Hong Kong
2017
Paris Photo — Paris
2017
Paris Photo — Paris
2016
Photo London — London
2016
Art Basel Hong Kong — Hong Kong
2014
The Armory Show — New York
2014
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The Art of Movement: Dance Photographs from the Carol Halsted Collection
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