About the Artwork
Brasilia
1961
Elliott Erwitt
1928-2023
American
Unknown
Gelatin silver print
Image: 8 × 12 inches (20.3 × 30.5 cm) Sheet: 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
Photographs
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Michigan Council for the Arts Exhibition Fund
74.191
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Markings
Signed in black ink, lower right: Elliott Erwitt.
Inscribed in pencil, on verso, lower edge: 61-8-31 | # [number] 3 | # [number] 3 FICT..
Provenance
Halsted Gallery (Birmingham, Michigan, USA)
1974-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Holmes, Sam,. Elliott Erwitt Photographs and Anti-Photographs. New York, 1972, p. 57 (ill.).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Elliott Erwitt, Brasilia, 1961, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Michigan Council for the Arts Exhibition Fund, 74.191.
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