Lot 370
  • 370

Thomas Demand

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Thomas Demand
  • Drei Garagen/ Three Garages
  • signed, dated 1995 and numbered 2/5 on the reverse wood support

  • digital color coupler print face mounted to Plexiglas
  • 37 by 91 1/2 in. 94 by 232.4 cm.

Provenance

Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

Le Channel, Galerie de l'ancienne poste; Calais & Centre d'art Contemporain de Vassivière en Limousin, Thomas Demand, 1996-1997, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Kunsthalle Zürich; Kunsthalle Bielfeld, Thomas Demand, March - September 1998 (another example exhibited)
Kunstverein Freiburg, Thomas Demand, 1998, pp. 12-13 (another example exhibited)
London, Architectural Association, Reconstructing Space: Architecture in Recent German Photography, April - May 1999, p. 101 (another example exhibited)
Kunstmuseum Bonn; North Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Thomas Demand, Andreas Gursky, Edward Ruscha, 1999, p. 67 (another example exhibited)
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Thomas Demand: Phototrophy, September - November 2004, pp. 102-103, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Literature

Jörg Heisler, "Der Neutronen-bomben-Effekt," Parkett, no. 62, September 2001, p. 142, illustrated

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. There is scattered light evidence of handling and fine unobtrusive abrasions. There are a few scattered spots where the artist has retouched the photograph as a result of inconsistencies of the emulsion process. Face mounted to Plexiglas. Unframed.
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