Phillips is honored to present, in lots 248 through 254, photographs from the collection of Inger and Osborn Elliott. The Elliotts cultivated an art collection worthy of praise in the heart of Manhattan. Their upper east side home served as a jewel box of taste, with brightly colored walls adorned with paintings, photographs, and drawings, all masterfully curated. The couple's diverse collection reflects their devotion to New York City's cultural, intellectual, and civic spheres, while also spanning a global reach of artistic styles and techniques.

Inger and Osborn Elliott.

Inger (1933-2024), originally from Norway, had a passion for photojournalism that brought her to Southeast Asia, where she documented the Vietnam War. She photographed for the Rapho Guillemette photo agency, as well as for Vogue, LIFE, Esquire, and Time magazines. She would later go on to found China Seas, a design firm specializing in batik textiles. Osborn (1924-2008), a revolutionary Newsweek editor and social advocate, served as Dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Trailblazers in their own regard, the Elliotts amassed a collection including rare, early works by Willem de Kooning, Wassily Kandinsky, and Milton Avery, among those by many other innovative modern and post-war painters, photographers, and printmakers.
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  Bulfinch Press, On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: 150 Years of Photography, pl. 242
  Ducrot, André Kertész: Sixty Years of Photography, p. 70
  Greenough, Gurbo, and Kennel, André Kertész, pl. 47
  Guadagnini and Caciolli, La fotografia della Collezione Trevisan: Con gli occhi, con il cuore, con la testa, p. 100
  Harry N. Abrams, Inc., André Kertész: A Lifetime of Perception, p. 243
  Thames & Hudson, André Kertész: Of Paris and New York, p. 129
  High Museum of Art, Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, p. 183
  LIGHT Gallery, LIGHT, p. 49