Live Auction 372520/21 Photographs/ Leaves of Light and Shadow: Photographs Gathered by William T. Hillman
ELLIOTT ERWITT (b. 1928)
Lot 41

ELLIOTT ERWITT (b. 1928)

New York, 1951

Closed31 March 2015

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ELLIOTT ERWITT (b. 1928)
New York, 1951
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1952
signed in pencil (on the verso)
image: 3 1/2 x 5 3/4in. (8.9 x 14.6cm.)
sheet: 5 x 7in. (12.7 x 17.8cm.)

From the artist to William Rossa Cole;
by descent to the Estate of William Rossa Cole;
Christie's New York, October 4, 2001, lot 244;
to Joseph Baio;
Selections from the Baio Collection of Photography, Christie's New York, April 15, 2010, lot 147;
with Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago

Specialist note

This is the last page of a spiral-bound, untitled book consisting of 30 individual prints mounted back to back. Erwitt made only four copies. He gave one to Edward Steichen that is now in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Another intact copy was sold in these rooms April 23, 2007 as lot 231.