Irving Penn’s After Dinner Games
currently being offered on artnet Auctions
until Tuesday, May 22, 2012

After Dinner Games by Irving Penn (American, 1917–2009) is currently being offered on artnet Auctions. This exciting 1947 color photograph employs all the stylistic and formal devices that characterize the work of this celebrated Modernist photographer. Estimated from US$140,000 to $160,000, After Dinner Games is one of 13 prints of this image in dye-transfer from the period between 1959 and 1960. Typical of his still lifes, the scene is composed of food and found objects: playing cards, dice, a domino, a coffee cup, a chess piece, and a small glass of unidentifiable liquor. These objects, carefully composed to look casually strewn, tell their own story through their physical and metaphorical autonomy. Like a Baroque vanitas, this work is laden with symbols that remind the viewer of the transience of life; it says that we are all players in the game of life, an unpredictable game of chance and risk.

After Dinner Games is live for bidding on artnet Auctions until Tuesday, May 22, 2012.
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