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Elliott Erwitt (1928-2023); 'Paris' (Umbrella Jump); image 1
Elliott Erwitt (1928-2023); 'Paris' (Umbrella Jump); image 2
Lot 81

Elliott Erwitt
(1928-2023)
'Paris' (Umbrella Jump)

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

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Elliott Erwitt (1928-2023)

'Paris' (Umbrella Jump), 1989
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 1/2 x 21 3/4 in. (36.8 x 55.3 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. 184
Elliott Erwitt, Elliott Erwitt's Paris (Kempen, 2010), cover; pp. 10-11

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
This lyrical image was chosen for the cover of the book Elliott Erwitt's Paris. It can be interpreted as an homage to his mentor Henri Cartier-Bresson, whose 1932 image Behind the Gare St. Lazare set a high bar for future photographers. Both compositions are defined by their leaping figures and rain-slicked streets. Whereas Erwitt worked with a horizontal format, Cartier-Bresson's image is decidedly vertical in orientation. Both emblematic images capture the City of Light at a 'decisive moment'.

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