VARIOUS PROPERTIES '...the subject matter of Erwitt's pictures is small beer indeed. His simple snapshots are no more heroic than the hapless and untidy lives of individual men. They deal with the empty spaces between happenings - with the anti-climactic non-event... From these unmemorable occasions, Erwitt has distilled with wit and clarity and grace, the indecisive moment.' (John Szarkowski)

ELLIOTT ERWITT (b. 1928)

Untitled (Notebook), c. 1950

Details

ELLIOTT ERWITT (b. 1928)
Untitled (Notebook), c. 1950
30 gelatin silver prints mounted back to back in a spiral bound notebook
signed and dated in ink (on the inside cover)
varying sizes from 3¼ x 4¾in. (8.2 x 12cm.) to 4 7/8 x 5 7/8in. (12.5 x 15cm.)

Provenance

From the artist;
to the present owner

Lot Essay

Elliott Erwitt produced four of these distinctive notebooks. One was given to Edward Steichen and is now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the second was given to the present owner of lot 231; and two remain in the artist's personal collection.

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