Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations Evening Sale
Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations Evening Sale
Shomei Tomatsu
Bottle Melted and Deformed by Atomic Bomb Heat, Radiation and Fire, Nagasaki
Auction Closed
May 1, 11:36 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Shomei Tomatsu
1930 - 2012
Bottle Melted and Deformed by Atomic Bomb Heat, Radiation and Fire, Nagasaki
gelatin silver print, signed and dated in pencil on the reverse, 1961, printed in 1965
image: 7¾ by 7⅛ in. (19.7 by 18.1 cm.)
Tepper Takayama Fine Arts, Boston, 2006
20th Century Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art (New York and Tokyo: The Museum of Modern Art and The Seibu Museum of Art, 1982). p. 69
Shomei Tomatsu, Ruinous Gardens (Tokyo, 1987), pl. 13
Shomei Tomatsu (London, 2001), p. 71
Anne Wilkes Tucker, Dana Friis-Hansen, Kaneko Ryūichi, and Takeba Joe, The History of Japanese Photography (Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, 2003), pl. 165
Shomei Tomatsu (Barcelona: Fundación MAPFRE, 2018), pl. 49
Lena Fritsch, Raven & Red Lipstick (New York, 2018), p. 67