Elliott Erwitt (1928-2023); 'New York City' (Lucienne and Cat);

Elliott Erwitt (1928-2023) 'New York City' (Lucienne and Cat), 1953 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. 13 1/2 x 21 7/8 in. (34.3 x 55.6 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 Sean Callahan, Masters of Contemporary Photography, Elliott Erwitt, The Private Experience: Personal Insights of a Professional Photographer (Los Angeles, 1974), p. 19 Elliott Erwitt, Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best (Kempen, 2009), p. 420 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 tender scene captures Erwitt's first wife Lucienne Van Kan napping with their cat while pregnant with her soon-to-be-born daughter, Ellen. It was featured in the section on pregnancy in Edward Steichen's ground-breaking exhibition The Family of Man, presented in 1955 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing