Numerous Works by Irving Penn on Offer for the Very First Time at Auction

NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s has been entrusted with the sale of "Three Decades with Irving Penn: Photographs from the Collection of Patricia McCabe", the most significant group of photographs by Irving Penn (1917-2009) ever to come to auction. The sale will take place on the evening of April 14, 2010 at Christie’s New York and will be preceded by public exhibitions in its Galleries at Rockefeller Center February 22-March 12, and April 10-13. The 67 photographs in the Collection were gifts from Irving Penn to Patricia McCabe, his trusted personal assistant for over thirty years. The images span the breadth of Penn’s long and illustrious career and include such masterpieces as "Cuzco Children", 1948, (estimate: $100,000-150,000), "Street Photographer, New York", 1950 (estimate: $25,000-35,000), "Poppy: Glowing Embers New York", 1968 (estimate: $70,000-90,000), and "Two Guedras, Morocco", 1971 (estimate: $40,000-60,0

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