Lot 378
  • 378

Andreas Gursky

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description

  • Andreas Gursky
  • Krefeld
  • signed, titled dated '89 - 2000 and numbered 2/6 on the reverse
  • c-print mounted to plexiglass, in artist's frame
  • image: 109 by 85cm.; 43 by 33 1/2 in.
  • framed: 148 by 124cm.; 58 1/4 by 48 7/8 in.

Provenance

Sale: Sotheby's, London, Contemporary Art, 13 October 2012, Lot 242 (donated by the artist to benefit the Ludwig Museum, Cologne, courtesy Sprüth Magers, Berlin/London)
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Literature

Exhibition Catalogue, Hamburg, Deichtorhallen, Andreas Gursky: Fotografien 1984 - 1993, 1994, p. 19, illustration of another example in colour
Exhibition Catalogue, Dusseldorf, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Andreas Gursky: Photographs from 1984 to the Present, 1998, p. 88, illustration of another example in colour
Exhibition Catalogue, Bonn, Kunstmuseum; Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Great Illusions, 1999, p. 88, illustration of another example in colour
Exhibition Catalogue, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Andreas Gursky, 2001, p. 59, illustration of another example in colour
Exhibition Catalogue, Krefeld, Kunstmuseen; Stockholm, Moderna Museet; Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, Andreas Gursky: Werke - Works 80- 08, 2008-09, p. 83, illustration of another example in colour

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate Condition: This work is in very good condition. Visible only upon extremely close inspection in raking light, there are a few extremely short, shallow and unobtrusive surface scratches to the plexiglass scattered in isolated places.
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