Elliott Erwitt (1928-2023); 'Czestochowa, Poland' (Confessional);

Elliott Erwitt (1928-2023) 'Czestochowa, Poland' (Confessional), 1964 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 3/4 x 22 1/4 in. (37.5 x 56.5 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. 112 Elliott Erwitt, Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best (Kempen, 2009), p. 172 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 photograph documents a queue for confession in the courtyard of the Jasna Góra Monastery in Częstochowa, Poland. Erwitt's framing highlights parallel activities on each side of the image: at the left, an official confession occurs between a priest and a man, while two women share a whispered conversation - perhaps a different sort of confessional - at the far right. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing