Lot 368
  • 368

Gilles Peress

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

  • Gilles Peress
  • SELECTED IMAGES FROM SARAJEVO AND BOSNIA
  • Two gelatin silver prints
2 oversized photographs, comprising Skanderia, Departure of Jews, Sarajevo 1993 and French Hospital, Sarajevo, August-September 1993, each signed on the reverse, framed, Buhl Collection and Guggenheim Museum exhibition labels on the reverse, 1993 (2)

Provenance

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, 1994

Exhibited

Skanderia, Departure of Jews, Sarajevo, 1993:

New York, Thread Waxing Space, Collection in Context: Selected Contemporary Photographs of Hands from the Collection of Henry M. Buhl, September - October 1996, and traveling to 8 other national and international venues through 1999 (see Appendix 1)

Palm Beach Photographic Centre, In Good Hands: Selected Works from the Buhl Collection, March 2011

Middletown, Delaware, Warner Gallery at St. Andrew's School, In Good Hands: Selected Works from the Buhl Collection, October - November 2011

French Hospital, Sarajevo, August-September, 1993:

New York, Guggenheim Museum, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection, June - September 2004, and 4 other international venues through 2007 (see Appendix 1)

West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, A Show of Hands: Photographs and Sculpture from the Buhl Collection, January - March 2008

Seoul, South Korea, Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection (Asian tour), March - May 2009, and 2 other Asian venues through 2011 (see Appendix 1)

Literature

Skanderia, Departure of Jews, Sarajevo, 1993:

Marianne Courville, Collection in Context: Selected Contemporary Photographs of Hands from the Collection of Henry M. Buhl (New York, 1996), pl. 21 (this print)

French Hospital, Sarajevo, August-September, 1993
:

Marianne Courville, Collection in Context: Selected Contemporary Photographs of Hands from the Collection of Henry M. Buhl (New York, 1996), pl. 21 (this print)

Jennifer Blessing, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection (Guggenheim Foundation, 2004), pp. 55 and 239 (this print)

Condition

These oversized photographs are in generally excellent condition.
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