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Elliott Erwitt (1928-2023); 'Texas, USA' (Motel Room); image 1
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Lot 34

Elliott Erwitt
(1928-2023)
'Texas, USA' (Motel Room)

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

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Elliott Erwitt (1928-2023)

'Texas, USA' (Motel Room), 1962
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.
21 5/8 x 14 3/8 in. (54.9 x 36.5 cm.)
sheet 23 7/8 x 19 7/8 in. (60.6 x 50.5 cm.)

Footnotes

Provenance
The photographer to Richard Coplan, circa 2012

Literature
Sam Holmes, Elliott Erwitt: Photographs and Anti-Photographs (Greenwich, 1972), p. 94
Elliott Erwitt, Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best (Kempen, 2009), p. 147

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
"According to my own scientific studies, the time and emotion devoted to coupling by the younger generations in America is second only to the national average TV viewing time . . . and gaining fast, as TV gets even more boring. That bodes well for propagation, if you think propagation's a good thing. I do. I always have a positive point of view where children are concerned – young, fresh, not yet channeled by the realities we make out of life." (Elliott Erwitt, quoted in Between the Sexes, p. 10)

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