Joel Sternfeld

Aisle 2, Row 3, Seat 5, Texas Theater, 231 W. Jefferson Street, Dallas, Texas, November 1993

New York Gantry Point Warehouse

Lot Closed

April 10, 05:00 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Joel Sternfeld

b. 1944

Aisle 2, Row 3, Seat 5, Texas Theater, 231 W. Jefferson Street, Dallas, Texas, November 1993

chromogenic print, mounted, signed, titled, dated and editioned '7/7' in ink on the reverse, framed, a Pace/MacGill Gallery label and a typed caption on the reverse

image: 18½ by 23⅜ in. (47 by 59.4 cm.)

frame: 28¾ by 32¾ in. (73 by 83.2 cm.)

Executed in 1993.

Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please contact Anjli Patel at Anjli.Patel@sothebys.com

Galerie Kicken, Berlin

Acquired from the above in 2002 by the present owner

On the reverse of the frame, the typed caption reads as follows:

'Aisle 2, Row 3, Seat 5, Texas Theatre, 231 West Jefferson Boulevard, Dallas, Texas, November 1993

Lee Harvey Oswald was sitting in this seat when he was arrested by Dallas police at 1:50 P.M., November 22, 1963. The double feature playing that day was Cry of Battle and War is Hell.'