Lot 428
  • 428

Andreas Gursky

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Andreas Gursky
  • Happy Valley I
  • signed, titled, dated '95 and numbered 6/6 on the reverse
  • color coupler print
  • 89 by 73 1/4 in. 226 by 186 cm.

Provenance

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Andreas Gursky - Photographs from 1984 to the Present, August - October 1998, p. 63, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; Photomuseum Winterthur; London, Serpentine Gallery; Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art; Turin, Castello di Rivoli; Lisbon, Centro Cultural de Belem, Andreas Gursky: Photographs 1994-1998, May 1998 - January 2000, p. 14-15, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Andreas Gursky, March - May 2001, no. 27, p. 109, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. There are a few scattered pinpoint spot accretions. Additionally, there is a small impression in the photograph located 12 inches from the top edge and 11 inches from the left edge which is visible only under raking light. Framed under glass.
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