id:			142313
accession number:	1966.141
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.141
updated:		2024-03-26 01:59:15.427000

Colette, 1951. Irving Penn (American, 1917–2009). Gelatin silver print; image: 56.1 x 55.6 cm (22 1/16 x 21 7/8 in.); matted: 81.3 x 76.2 cm (32 x 30 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Artist 1966.141 © 1954, renewed 1982, Condé Nast Publications Ltd.

title:				Colette
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creation date:			1951
creation date earliest:		1951
creation date latest:		1951
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creditline:			Gift of the Artist
copyright:			© 1954, renewed 1982, Condé Nast Publications Ltd.

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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	gelatin silver print
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - American 1951-Present
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Irving Penn (American, 1917–2009)  - artist
Irving Penn American, 1917- Irving Penn (born in Plainfield, New Jersey) is one of this country's best known fashion and advertising photographers. He studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, attending design classes taught by Alexey Brodovitch, the influential art director for Harper's Bazaar. After graduating in 1938, Penn worked as a graphic artist and designer in New York, then spent a year painting in Mexico. In 1943 he returned to New York and began designing photographic covers for Vogue. Soon he was photographing the covers himself, as well as producing fashion and still-life images for the magazine. He began making portraits for Vogue in 1946 and over the years photographed numerous celebrities. It was his revolutionary series of photographs of the 1950 Paris collections for Vogue, however, that brought Penn his first great success. Avoiding the usual elaborate settings, he placed his models instead in a bare studio against a plain backdrop, focusing great care on pose and gesture. About this time Penn also began a major personal project photographing nudes and experimenting with photographic printmaking. Since the early 1950s Penn has produced advertising photographs for American and international clients in addition to his Vogue assignments and the yearly photographic essays he began in 1961 for Look magazine (1961-67). Among his most recent personal photographs are platinum prints of animal skulls. Penn's work has been featured in one-person exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1961, 1975, 1984), the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (1963), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1977), and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1991), as well as in many group shows. He lives in New York. M.M.
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measurements: Image: 56.1 x 55.6 cm (22 1/16 x 21 7/8 in.); Matted: 81.3 x 76.2 cm (32 x 30 in.)
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	inscription:	Written in blue ink on verso: "Colette / Photographed Paris 1951 / Irving Penn [signed]"; on printed label on verso: "COLETTE [typed] / PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Photography copyright 1954 ['54' typed],  / THE CONDÉ NAST PUBLICATIONS LTD. [typed] / not to be reproduced except in a critical / review without the written permission of / the copyright owner. / Any reproduction must bear copyright."
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Photograph Exhibition
	opening date:   1971-07-13T04:00:00
	<i>Photograph Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 13-September 19, 1971).

	title:		Source Material for Studio Projects
	opening date:   1972-06-20T04:00:00
	<i>Source Material for Studio Projects</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 20-August 27, 1972).

	title:		Portraiture: The Image of the Individual
	opening date:   1983-11-22T05:00:00
	<i>Portraiture: The Image of the Individual</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'New York World\'s Fair, 1965: "Photograph in the Fine Arts."', 'opening_date': '1965-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'CMA, September 10 - October 16, 1966: "Golden Anniversary Acquisitions," CMA Bulletin 53 (September 1966), p. 284, no. 121, repr. p. 248.', 'opening_date': '1966-09-10T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Cleveland, The Kenneth C. Beck Center for the Cultural Arts, 1979: "Selections of Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art."', 'opening_date': '1979-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'CMA, November 22, 1983 - January 22, 1984: "Portraiture: The Image of the Individual," no exhibition catalogue.', 'opening_date': '1983-11-22T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'CMA, July 21 - October 18, 1987: "Fraternite, Artistic Relations between France and America," no exhibition catalogue.', 'opening_date': '1987-07-21T00:00:00'}

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 258
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n278

	Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. <em>Catalogue of Photography</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 267
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