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Bernd and Hilla Becher

'Förderturm, Kleinzeche, Pennsylvania' (Erdmann Brothers Coal Co., Valley View, Schuykill County)

Auction Closed

October 25, 04:33 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Bernd and Hilla Becher

1931-2007 and 1934-2015

'Förderturm, Kleinzeche, Pennsylvania' (Erdmann Brothers Coal Co., Valley View, Schuykill County)


gelatin silver print, ferrotyped, signed, titled, and annotated in pencil on the reverse, framed, 1974

image: 4¾ by 6⅝ in. (12.1 by 16.8 cm.)

frame: 14⅞ by 17 in. (37.8 by 43.2 cm.)

Kicken Gallery, Berlin, 2004
Typologies: Nine Contemporary Photographers (Newport Beach, CA: Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1991), p. 39

Bernd & Hilla Becher: Pennsylvania Coal Mine Tipples (New York, 1991), no. 32

Bernd & Hilla Becher: Coal Mines and Steel Mills (Munich, 2010), pl. 74

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