Elliott Erwitt (1928-2023); 'Ireland' (Dun Laoghaire);

Elliott Erwitt (1928-2023) 'Ireland' (Dun Laoghaire), 1962 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 3/8 x 21 1/2 in. (36.5 x 54.6 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. 70 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 comparison with the great issues of the time, the subject matter of Erwitt's pictures is small beer indeed. His simple snapshots are no more heroic than the hapless and untidy lives of individual men. They deal with the empty spaces between happenings – with the anti-cinematic non-event. His subjects seem the patient victims of unspecified misunderstandings, awaiting a prompter's cue on a stage designed for a different play. Over their inactivity hangs the premonition of a pratfall. From these unmemorable occasions Erwitt has distilled, with wit and clarity and grace, the indecisive moment.' (John Szarkowski, Elliott Erwitt: Photographs and Anti-Photographs, p. 5) For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing