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Elliott Erwitt (1928-2023); 'New York City' (Men in Costume); image 1
Elliott Erwitt (1928-2023); 'New York City' (Men in Costume); image 2
Lot 23

Elliott Erwitt
(1928-2023)
'New York City' (Men in Costume)

3 – 13 September 2024, 12:00 EDT
Online, New York

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Elliott Erwitt (1928-2023)

'New York City' (Men in Costume), 1956
Gelatin silver print, printed later; signed in ink in the margin, signed, titled, and dated in pencil on the reverse, framed, a Boca Raton Museum of Art label on the reverse.
14 1/2 x 21 3/4 in. (36.8 x 55.3 cm.)
sheet 19 7/8 x 23 7/8 in. (50.5 x 60.6 cm.)

Footnotes

Provenance
The photographer to Richard Coplan, circa 2012

Literature
Elliott Erwitt, Between the Sexes (New York and London, 1994), p. 88
Elliott Erwitt, Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best (Kempen, 2009), p. 300

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
"When I came across [this] bar scene...I couldn't stop laughing, but I don't remember where or when I took it. You'd think it's the kind of occasion that would stick out in the memory. It doesn't. Would the picture be more enjoyable if I could remember the facts?" (Erwitt, quoted in Elliott Erwitt: Between the Sexes, p. 11)

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