Power of the Penn second time around

As part of their latest 20th Century & Decorative Art auction in Stansted Mountfitchet, Sworders sold this still life by the influential American photographer Irving Penn (1917-2009) for £61,000.

The dry transfer print of two fan-shaped leaves, taken by Penn in New York in 1990, was printed two …

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