Hiroshi Sugimoto

Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Sotheby's, New York, November 13, 2002, lot 425
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

New York, Sonnabend Gallery; Tokyo, Zeito Photo Salon and Sagacho Exhibition Space, Photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto: Dioramas, Theatres, Seascapes, June - October 1988, illustrated
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sugimoto, December 1993 - February 1994, illustrated
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum; Gunma, Hara Museum ARC; Akron Art Museum, Sugimoto, November 1995 - May 1998, p. 41, illustrated

Tracey Bashkoff and Nancy Spector, Sugimoto Portraits, New York, 2000, p. 10

This work is in excellent condition overall. The silver gelatin print is attached to a mount which is signed by the artist. The mat fits in photo mounts at the corners. The front mat obscures approximately 1/8 in. of the image on all sides. Framed under glass.
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Sea of Japan, Hokkaido is also in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and was included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 1995 one-man exhibition that also traveled to Houston, Japan and Akron, Ohio. In her essay for the exhibition catalogue, Maria Morris Hambourg, the former Curator of Photography at the Metropolitan, discusses Sugiomoto's Day Seascapes, which the artist began in 1980 and continued into the early 1990s. Avoiding dramatic weather and human incident, he focused instead on the meeting of sea and sky. This featureless, iconic definition of his subject leads the viewer to attend to the delicately elusive qualities of windswept water, shredding mists and luminous haze that are specific to each locale.'' (Exh. Cat., New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sugimoto, 1995, p. 12)