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Elliott Erwitt (1928-2023); 'Budapest, Hungary' (Train Station); image 1
Elliott Erwitt (1928-2023); 'Budapest, Hungary' (Train Station); image 2
Lot 45

Elliott Erwitt
(1928-2023)
'Budapest, Hungary' (Train Station)

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

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Elliott Erwitt (1928-2023)

'Budapest, Hungary' (Train Station), 1964
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 3/4 x 22 in. (37.5 x 55.9 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, Elliott Erwitt's Handbook (New York, 2003), p. 89
Elliott Erwitt, Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best (Kempen, 2009), p. 370

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
For three months in 1964, Elliott Erwitt traveled more than 1,000 miles throughout Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary to complete a commission for a Life World Library book on these Eastern European countries. He was given complete freedom to photograph whatever he desired. This image documents a bittersweet farewell at the Budapest train station. After the 1956 Hungarian Revoluation, authorities closed the borders to working-age adults, thus allowing only senior citizens to leave the country. Erwitt subtly captured a host of emotions expressed in the faces of both the train passengers and onlookers.

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