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Elliott Erwitt (1928-2023); 'Madrid' (Museo Nacional del Prado); image 1
Elliott Erwitt (1928-2023); 'Madrid' (Museo Nacional del Prado); image 2
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Elliott Erwitt
(1928-2023)
'Madrid' (Museo Nacional del Prado)

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

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Elliott Erwitt (1928-2023)

'Madrid' (Museo Nacional del Prado), 1995
Gelatin silver print, printed later; signed in ink in the margin, signed, titled, dated, and numbered '#1' in pencil on the reverse, framed, a Boca Raton Museum of Art label on the reverse.
14 7/8 x 22 in. (37.8 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: 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.

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