Elliott Erwitt (1928-2023); 'Bridgehampton, NY' (Art Class);

Elliott Erwitt (1928-2023) 'Bridgehampton, NY' (Art Class), 1990 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 3/8 x 20 in. (34 x 50.8 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, Between the Sexes (New York and London, 1994), cover; p. 28 Elliott Erwitt, Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best (Kempen, 2009), p. 298 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 this photograph, Elliott Erwitt captured two children pretending to create Francisco de Goya's painting The Clothed Maja. '[This image] is posed, as are a very few obvious set-ups scattered throughout this book. It was part of a series of nine photos I did for the annual report of an international business insurance company. This photo supposedly represents the theme: 'Professionalism: Mastery is a product of skill and imagination. Professional reinsurers know how to make the decisions that create ongoing security – no matter how ingenious the obstacles.' 'Because shooting the whole series would take a few days and the company gave me carte blanche, I decided to take the photos at the Bridgehampton school where my two youngest daughters were going at the time.' (Elliott Erwitt, quoted in Elliott Erwitt: Between the Sexes, p. 13) For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing