Bernd and Hilla Becher

a sequence of 9 photographs, each ferrotyped, signed and numbered sequentially and the first dated and annotated with a sequence map in pencil on the reverse, framed together, Sonnabend Gallery and Barbara Gladstone Gallery labels on the reverse, 1976

Sonnabend Gallery, New York

Collection of the Gilman Paper Company, New York

Christie's New York, Minimal and Conceptual Art from the Collection of the Gilman Paper Company, 5 May 1987, Sale 6372, Lot 41

Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York

Collection of Baroness Marion Lambert

Phillips de Pury and Company New York, Veronica's Revenge: Contemporary Photography from the Lambert Art Collection, 8 November 2004, Lot 60

Ishøj, Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Veronica's Revenge, June - September 2000 and traveling to Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, November 2000 - March 2001

Elizabeth Janus, ed., Veronica's Revenge: Contemporary Perspectives in Photography (Zürich, 1998), p. 103 (these prints)

These 9 ferrotyped prints are in generally excellent condition. As is typical of ferrotyped prints, a general unevenness of the glossy surface and occasional pitting are visible upon close inspection. The reverse of each print is numbered sequentially 1B through 9B.
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