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Provenance
The photographer to Richard Coplan, circa 2012
Literature
Elliott Erwitt, Between the Sexes (New York and London, 1994), cover; p. 28
Elliott Erwitt, Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best (Kempen, 2009), p. 298
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
In this photograph, Elliott Erwitt captured two children pretending to create Francisco de Goya's painting The Clothed Maja.
"[This image] is posed, as are a very few obvious set-ups scattered throughout this book. It was part of a series of nine photos I did for the annual report of an international business insurance company. This photo supposedly represents the theme: 'Professionalism: Mastery is a product of skill and imagination. Professional reinsurers know how to make the decisions that create ongoing security – no matter how ingenious the obstacles.'
"Because shooting the whole series would take a few days and the company gave me carte blanche, I decided to take the photos at the Bridgehampton school where my two youngest daughters were going at the time." (Elliott Erwitt, quoted in Elliott Erwitt: Between the Sexes, p. 13)