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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Provenance
Swann Auction Galleries, New York, 25 October 2016, lot 206
Literature
Abrams, Marc Riboud: Photographs at Home and Abroad, cover
Riboud, I for imagine, cover
Phaidon, Magnum Stories, p. 386
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF INGER AND OSBORN ELLIOTT
249
Painter on the Eiffel Tower, Paris
1953
Gelatin silver print, printed later.
17 3/4 x 11 1/2 in. (45.1 x 29.2 cm)
Signed in pencil in the margin; signed, titled, and dated in pencil on the verso.
Estimate
$3,000 - 5,000
Sarah Krueger
Head of Department, Photographs
skrueger@phillips.com
Vanessa Hallett
Worldwide Head of Photographs and Chairwoman, Americas
vhallett@phillips.com
Photographs
New York Auction 9 October 2024
325
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354
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