THOMAS STRUTH | Louvre 1, Paris

Private Collection, France
Christie's, London, 23 October 2005, Lot 143
Acquired from the above by the present owner

New York, Marian Goodman Gallery, Portraits and Museum Photographs, September - October 1990 (ed. no. unknown)
Washington, Hirshorn Museum, Directions, May - August 1992 (ed. no. unknown)
Cologne, Museum Ludwig; Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst; Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; and Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Photographie in der Deutschen Gegenwartskunst, September 1993 - May 1996 (ed, no, unknown)
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Photographie III: Thomas Struth: Museum Photographs, November 1993 - January 1994 (ed. no. unknown)
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Passions Privées, December 1995 - March 1995, n.p., no. 30 (text)
Boston, The Institute of Contemporary Art; London, Institute of Contemporary Art; and Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Thomas Struth: Strangers and Friends, Photographs 1986 - 1992, January 1994 - April 1995, p. 73, illustrated in colour (ed. no. unknown)
Helsinki, Kluuvin Galleria, Valocuvia Fotografier, August - September 1996, p. 9, illustrated in colour (ed. no. unknown)
Frankfurt, Städel Museum; and Hannover, Sprengel Museum, How you Look at it: Fotografien des 20.Jahrhunderts, May - November 2000 (ed. no unknown)
Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Wallflowers: große Fotografien, June - September 2002 (ed. no. unknown)
Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich; Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen; London, Whitechapel Gallery; and Porto, Museo Serralves, Fotografien 1978 - 2010, June 2010 - January 2012, p. 117, Illustrated in colour (ed. no. unknown)
Frankfurt, Städel Museum, Dialog der Meisterwerke: Hoher Besuch zum Jubiläum, October 2015 - January 2016 (ed. no. unknown)
Riga, National Museum of Art, Elective Affinities, June - August 2016 (ed. no. unknown)

Schirmer/Mosel, Eds., Thomas Struth: Museum Photographs, Munich 1993, p. 30,  illustrated in colour (ed. no. unknown)
Okatsu Kiyoshi, Rei Masuda and Kijoshi Okatsu, Thomas Struth: My Portrait, Tokyo 2000, p. 103, illustrated in colour (ed. no. unknown)
Schirmer/Mosel, Eds., Thomas Struth: Museum Photographs, Munich 2005, p. 19, illustrated in colour (ed. no. unknown)

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is deeper and richer in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Very close inspection reveals a few tiny splinters in isolated places to the extreme edge of the frame, most notably to the two horizontal edges and some faint scuffs and media accretions to the frame's Plexiglas. The irregularities in the print look to be original. Extremely close inspection in raking light reveals a faint fork shaped scratch to the centre left of the print, which has two tiny specks of associated loss.
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“The museums were almost always crowded, and this led me to wonder what people were looking for in front of these historic paintings. For me the museum is a place to sharpen my tool, my perception, to delve into history. What can you valuably take from pictures from the past, which might be a catalyst for interesting or productive ideas for the future?” (Thomas Struth cited in: Tobia Bezzola, Anette Kruszynski, and James Lingwood, Eds., Thomas Struth Photographs: 1978-2010, Munich 2010, p. 198.)