Elliott Erwitt (1928-2023); 'Colorado, USA' (Broken Window);

Elliott Erwitt (1928-2023) 'Colorado, USA' (Broken Window), 1955 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 1/4 x 21 1/2 in. (36.2 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 Sam Holmes, Elliott Erwitt: Photographs and Anti-Photographs (Greenwich, 1972), p. 73 Sean Callahan, Masters of Contemporary Photography, Elliott Erwitt, The Private Experience: Personal Insights of a Professional Photographer (Los Angeles, 1974), pp. 40-41 Elliott Erwitt, Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best (Kempen, 2009), p. 430 Exhibited Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best, Personal Choice, Chanel Nexus Hall, Toyko, 6 April - May 6 2007 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 Notes 'Erwitt's juxtapositions are frightening. There is his picture of a near manic-looking child with his eye lined up behind a spider-webbed window. It could be a fatal frame stolen from some high-speed camera recording that horrible half-moment between the firing of a gun and the victim's realization that he has been shot. But it isn't. 'It's just a kid I saw in a school bus in Colorado. Essentially the picture was there, and I moved very little in order to strengthen the juxtaposition.'' (Erwitt, quoted in Sean Callahan, The Private Experience: Elliott Erwitt, p. 44-45) For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing