Lot 593
  • 593

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Hiroshi Sugimoto
  • Golden Eagle
  • 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 1994, this work is number 2 from an edition of 5.

Provenance

Private Collection, Paris
Sotheby's, London, July 2, 2008, lot 334
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

Literature

Exh. Cat., Tokyo, Mori Art Museum; Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Hiroshi Sugimoto, 2006, p. 59, illustrated

Condition

This work appears in excellent condition overall. There are no apparent condition issues with this work. The sheet is mounted to the backing board and framed under Plexiglas.
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Catalogue Note

"Upon first arriving in New York in 1974, I did the tourist thing. Eventually I visited the Natural History Museum, where I made a curious discovery: the stuffed animals positioned before painted backdrops looked utterly fake, yet by taking a quick peek with one eye closed, all perspective vanished, and suddenly they looked very real. I'd found away to see the world as a camera does. However fake the subject, once photographed, it's as good as real." - Hiroshi Sugimoto