67 Irving Penn Prints To Be Sold

67 Irving Penn Prints To Be Sold at Auction

by Holly Hughes

For more than 30 years, Patricia McCabe worked as personal assistant to master photographer Irving Penn, who died last year at the age of 92. Over the years, Penn gave McCabe numerous prints he inscribed to her. Now McCabe is putting 67 of those prints up for sale at an auction to be held April 14 at Christie’s auction house in New York. “Three Decades With Irving Penn: From the Collection of Patricia McCabe” will be on view starting February 22, according to Christie’s. The prints may prove to be a nice pension for the photographer’s personal assistant. In October, just one day after Penn’s death, a print from his “Small Trades” series sold for $74,500 at an auction at Christie’s. At the same auction, “Cuzco Newsboy, 1948” (shown at right) was the second highest-price image, selling for $72,100 . The record auction price for a Penn print was set April 11, 2008, when a print of “Cuzco Children” sold for $529,000.