Elliott Erwitt (1928-2023); 'Venice, Italy' (Children);

Elliott Erwitt (1928-2023) 'Venice, Italy' (Children), 1949 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. 17 3/8 x 17 1/2 in. (44.1 x 44.5 cm.) sheet 23 7/8 x 19 7/8 in. (60.6 x 50.5 cm.) Footnotes: Provenance The photographer to Richard Coplan, circa 2012 Literature Elliott Erwitt, Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best (Kempen, 2009), p. 35 Jessica S. McDonald, Elliott Erwitt: Home Around the World (Aperture, 2016), cover 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 1949, Elliott Erwitt travelled to France and Italy, where he took numerous photographs with his Rolleiflex camera; its square format can be seen in Lots 2-4. By the following year, Erwitt would begin to shoot almost exclusively with a Leica. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing