Irving Penn (1917-2009) The Balloon Merchant. Paris, 1950, silver print (c. 1960) mounted on card . Stamped "Photograph - by - Penn", copyright stamp "Condé Nast" and handwritten title on verso of mount. 26.7 x 25.1 cmBibliography : Irving Penn, Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo, exhibition catalogue, 1986, ill. 25. Irving Penn, Passage, Alfred A. Knopf / Callaway, New York, 1991, p. 88 . Irving Penn (1917-2009) The balloon merchant. Paris, 1950. gelatin silver print (c. 1960), mounted on cardboard . Stamp "Photograph - by - Penn", copyright stamp "Condé Nast" and handwritten title on the back of the mount. 26,7 x 25,1 cm