Lot 605
  • 605

Jeff Wall

Estimate
350,000 - 450,000 USD
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Description

  • Jeff Wall
  • Office Hallway, Spring Street, Los Angeles
  • dated 1997 and numbered 1/2 on the reverse
  • gelatin silver print
  • 74 by 92 in. 188 by 233.7 cm.
  • Executed in 1997, this work is number 1 from an edition of 2 plus 1 artist's proof.

Provenance

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in August 1999

Exhibited

New York, Marian Goodman Gallery, Jeff Wall, January - March 1998
Cologne, Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Jeff Wall: Photographs, February - April 1998 (another example exhibited)
Leeds, Henry Moore Institute, Here and Now II: Jeff Wall, November 1998 - January 1999, p. 38, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Montreal, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Jeff Wall: Oeuvres 1990-1998, February - April 1999, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castelló, Jeff Wall, Pepe Espaliú: Temps Suspés, May - July 1999, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Madrid, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Jeff Wall, January - March 2001(another example exhibited)
Frankfurt, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Jeff Wall: Figures & Places: Ausgewälte Werke von 1978 bis 2000, June - November 2001, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Basel, Schaulager, Jeff Wall - Photographs 1978-200, April - September 2005 (another example exhibited)
New York, Thread Waxing Space, Foul Play, 1999 (another example exhibited)
Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhem Museum, Am horizont, November 1999 - February 2000 (another example exhibited)

Literature

Uta M. Reindl, "Jeff Wall," Kunstforum International, No. 140, April - June 1998, p. 387
Grady T. Turner, "Jeff Wall: Marian Goodman," Flash Art, Vol. 31, No. 201, Summer 1998, pp. 137-138
Réal Lussier, A Survey of the Nineties, Montreal, 1999, pp. 12 and 84, illustrated
Rolf Lauter, ed., Jeff Wall, Figures & Places. Selected Works from 1978-2000, Munich, 2001, cat. no. 6, pp. 44-45, illustrated, illustrated on the back cover
Jean François Chevrier, The Spectres of the Everyday, Duve, 2002, p. 167, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Steidl, Hasselblad Center, Jeff Wall: Photographs, 2002, n.p.
Sven Lütticken, "Eeuwige schoonheid; Jeff Wall en de traditie," De Witte Raafe, No. 107, January 2004, p. 9
Craig Burnett, Jeff Wall, London, 2005, p. 85, illustrated
Theodora Vischer and Heidi Naef, eds., Jeff Wall: Catalogue Raisonné 1978-2004, Göttingen, 2005, cat. no. 79, pp. 186-7 and 386, illustrated

Condition

This work appears in excellent condition overall. There are no apparent condition issues with this work. Framed under Plexiglas.
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