Oct 17, 2013 - Sale 2325

Sale 2325 - Lot 156

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
ERWITT, ELLIOTT (1928- )
Vice Pres. Richard Nixon and Soviet Union Leader Nikita Khrushchev ("The Kitchen Debate"), Moscow. Silver print, 6x9 inches (15.2x22.9 cm.), with a hand stamp "Erwitt book" and notations, in pencil, on verso. 1958

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Nixon and Khrushchev engaged in a heated debate about the merits of capitalism vs. communism in the middle of a model kitchen set up for the American National Exhibition. The so-called "kitchen debate" became one of the most famous episodes and iconic images of the Cold War.