Lot 381
  • 381

Thomas Struth

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 GBP
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Description

  • Thomas Struth
  • Audience 06 (Galleria dell'Accademia) Florenz
  • signed on a label affixed to the backing board
  • c-print, in artist's frame
  • overall: 185 by 289cm.; 72 7/8 by 113 3/4 in.
  • Executed in 2004, this work number 5 from an edition of 10.

Provenance

Sale: Sotheby's, London, Contemporary Art, 13 October 2012, Lot 240 (donated by the artist to benefit the Ludwig Museum, Cologne)
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Why Pictures Now, 2006, another example exhibited
Mannheim, Kunsthalle Mannheim, 100 Jahre Kunsthalle Mannheim, 2007, another example exhibited
Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, Making Time, 2007, p. 86, another example exhibited
Klosterneuburg, Sammlung Essl, Foto. Kunst, 2007, another example exhibited
Stuttgart, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Cross-Border: Fotografie und Videokunst aus dem MUMOK, 2007, another example exhibited
Frankfurt/Main, Schirn Kunsthalle, All-Inclusive - A Tourist World, 2008, another example exhibited
London, Whitechapel Gallery; Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung NRW, Fotografien 1978 - 2010, 2011, another example exhibited
Worpswede, Grosse Kunstschau Worpswede, Menschenbilder, 2011, another example exhibited
Kiel, Kunsthalle Kiel, Von Sinnen. Wahrnehmung in der Zeitgenossischen Kunst, 2012, another example exhibited

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Extremely close inspection reveals two pinhead-size irregularities to the print towards the centre right of the composition, which are likely to be original.
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