Lot 368
  • 368

Andreas Gursky

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description

  • Andreas Gursky
  • N. Y. Times Square
  • signed, titled, dated '97 and numbered 3/6 on a label affixed to the reverse

  • chromogenic print in artist's wood frame
  • 73 1/2 by 98 1/2 in. 186.1 by 249.6 cm.

Provenance

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Private Collection, Chicago (acquired from the above in 1997)
Sotheby's, New York, November 12, 2008, lot 528
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

Exhibited

New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, Andreas Gursky, November 1997 - January 1998 (another example exhibited)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Andreas Gursky, March - May 2001, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Donaueschingen, Fürstenberg Sammlungen, Ahead of the 21st Century: The Pisces Collection, June 2002 - October 2004, p. 89, no. 64, illustrated in color

Literature

Lynne Cooke, Rupert Pfab, Marie Luise Syring, Andreas Gursky: Photographs from 1984 to the present, Munich, 2000, p. 23, illustrated in color
Monika Steinhauser, ed., Ansicht Aussicht Einsicht, Düsseldorf, 2000, p. 85, illustrated in color
Uta Grosenick Burkhard Riemschneider, ed., Art At the Turn of the Millennium, Cologne, 1999, p. 208, illustrated in color
Peter Galassi, Andreas Gursky, New York, 2001, p. 161, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good condition. There are no apparent condition problems with this work. The chromogenic print is front mounted to the Plexiglas by the artist and framed.
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