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Elliott Erwitt (1928-2023); 'California' (Kiss); image 1
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Lot 27

Elliott Erwitt
(1928-2023)
'California' (Kiss)

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

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Elliott Erwitt (1928-2023)

'California' (Kiss), 1955
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 7/8 x 22 1/8 in. (37.8 x 56.2 cm.)
sheet 20 x 23 7/8 in. (50.8 x 60.6 cm.)

Footnotes

Provenance
The photographer to Richard Coplan, circa 2012

Literature
Elliott Erwitt, Personal Exposures (New York, 1988), cover
Elliott Erwitt, Snaps (London, 2001), pp. 502-503
Elliott Erwitt, Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best (Kempen, 2009), p. 434

Exhibited
Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best, Personal Choice, Chanel Nexus Hall, Toyko, 6 April - May 6 2007

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
In this astonishingly complex image, Elliott Erwitt captured the reflection of a newlywed couple in the side-view mirror of their car parked by the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica. The photograph was published on 24 December 1956 in a special issue of LIFE magazine devoted to The American Woman, Her Achievements and Troubles. It stands as one of Erwitt's most beloved - and reproduced - photographs of his long career.

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