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Elliott Erwitt (1928-2023); 'Orléans, France' (Bird and Cobblestones); image 1
Elliott Erwitt (1928-2023); 'Orléans, France' (Bird and Cobblestones); image 2
Lot 9

Elliott Erwitt
(1928-2023)
'Orléans, France' (Bird and Cobblestones)

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

US$4,000 - US$6,000

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Elliott Erwitt (1928-2023)

'Orléans, France' (Bird and Cobblestones), 1952
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 55.2 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
Sam Holmes, Elliott Erwitt: Photographs and Anti-Photographs (Greenwich, 1972), p. 114
Elliott Erwitt, Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best (Kempen, 2009), p. 64

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
Elliott Erwitt was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1951. Since he was fluent in four languages, he was stationed in Europe, first in Karlsruhe, Germany and then in Orléans, France. He worked as a photographer's assistant, taking identification photos and occasionally shooting portraits for officers. His furloughs allowed him to travel widely in Europe. This image embodies formal aspects and visual themes that Erwitt would continue to explore in the coming decades, particularly his love of capturing animals in motion, as well as his ability to utilize natural lighting for dramatic effect.

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