Lot 598
  • 598

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • Hiroshi Sugimoto
  • Bay of Sagami, Atami
  • signed on the mount; blind stamped with the title, date 1997, edition number 17/25 and negative number 486
  • gelatin silver print mounted on Sintra
  • 20 by 24 in. 50.8 by 61 cm.

Provenance

Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 2000

Exhibited

Madrid, Sala de Exposiciones de la Fundación “La Caixa”; Lisbon, Centro Cultural de Belém, Sugimoto, May 1998 - January 1999, illustrated p. 167 (another example exhibited)
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Munich, Haus der Kunst, Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century, October 1999 - April 2000, cat no. 78
Bonn, Kunstmuseum; St. Gallen, Kunstmuseum, Through the Looking Brain: A Swiss Collection of Conceptual Photography, June 2011 - January 2012, p. 229, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Condition

This work is in excellent condition overall. The print is firmly mounted to the sintra board. The sintra board is cornered and affixed to the matte. Framed under Plexiglas.
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