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Lot 533
  • 533

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
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Description

  • Hiroshi Sugimoto
  • Mirtoan Sea, Sounion
  • signed on a label affixed to the backing board
  • gelatin silver print
  • 47 by 58 3/4 in. 119.4 by 149.2 cm.
  • Executed in 1990, this work is number 4 from an edition of 5.

Provenance

Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum; Gunma, Hara Museum ARC; Akron Art Museum, Sugimoto, November 1995 - May 1998, p. 71, illustrated (another example exhibited)
London, Serpentine Gallery, Hiroshi Sugimoto, November 2003 - January 2004 (another example exhibited)
New York, Japan Society, Hiroshi Sugimoto: History of History, September 2005 - February 2006 (another example exhibited)
Tokyo, Mori Art Museum; Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Hiroshi Sugimoto: End of Time, September 2005 - May 2006, p. 123, illustrated (another example exhibited)

Condition

This work appears in excellent condition overall. The surface is clean and fresh. There are no apparent condition problems with this work. Framed under glass.
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Catalogue Note

"It is very important to know the name of the sea and location where my seascapes are taken. I want the viewer to imagine the sea before it was named: What would you call it if you were the first to lay eyes on it?" - Hiroshi Sugimoto, 2006