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Provenance
The photographer to Richard Coplan, circa 2012
Literature
Elliott Erwitt, Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best (Kempen, 2009), p. 402
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
Taken at the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid, this photograph demonstrates that Erwitt was an astute observer of human nature who was quick to capture real-world situations with his camera. In this gallery, two paintings by Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) hang side by side. A woman looks at The Clothed Maja on the left, while a group of men contemplates The Naked Maja on the right.