A Life Among Artists: Contemporary Photographs from an Esteemed Private Collection

A Life Among Artists: Contemporary Photographs from an Esteemed Private Collection

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Roni Horn

Doubt by Water (Why)

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September 29, 06:27 PM GMT

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60,000 - 90,000 USD

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Roni Horn

b. 1955

Doubt by Water (Why)


12 pigment prints produced as 6 double-sided units, flush-mounted in recto/verso pairs between UV acrylic and fixed on anodized aluminum stanchions, 'WHY [A-F, respectively]' on the underside of the aluminum channel, 2003-4, one from an edition of 4 (6)

photographs: each 17 ⅜ by 22 in. (44.1 by 55.9 cm.)

overall height: each unit 70 ½ in. (179.1 cm.)

overall installation: variable

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, 2005

Chrissie Iles, Shamim M. Momin, and Debra Singer, Whitney Biennial 2004 (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2004), cf. pp. 190, 258

Briony Fer, Roni Horn aka Roni Horn (London: Tate Modern; and New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2009), cf. pp. 66-68 and 170-77