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Provenance
The photographer to Richard Coplan, circa 2012
Literature
Sean Callahan, Masters of Contemporary Photography, Elliott Erwitt, The Private Experience: Personal Insights of a Professional Photographer (Los Angeles, 1974), p. 19
Elliott Erwitt, Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best (Kempen, 2009), p. 420
Exhibited
Elliott Erwitt: Photographs from the Collection of Richard Coplan and Martin R. Mallinger, Boca Raton Museum of Art, 9 November 2014 - 11 January 2015
The Art of Observation: The Best of Photographer Elliott Erwitt, D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts / Springfield Museums, 9 November 2019 - 12 January 2020; Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, 17 September - 31 December 2022
Note
This tender scene captures Erwitt's first wife Lucienne Van Kan napping with their cat while pregnant with her soon-to-be-born daughter, Ellen. It was featured in the section on pregnancy in Edward Steichen's ground-breaking exhibition The Family of Man, presented in 1955 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.