Lot 305
  • 305

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO | Catherine Parr

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Hiroshi Sugimoto
  • Catherine Parr
  • signed on a label affixed to the reverse
  • gelatin silver print
  • 58 3/4 by 47 in. 149.2 by 119.4 cm.
  • Executed in 1999, this work is number 4 from an edition of 5, plus 1 artist's proof.

Provenance

Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Private Collection, Seattle

Exhibited

Tokyo, Mori Art Museum; Washington, D.C., Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Hiroshi Sugimoto, September 2005 - May 2006, p. 229, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Berlin, Deutsche Guggenheim; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Sugimoto: Portraits, March - September 2000, p. 91, illustrated (another example exhibited)

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. Under close inspection, there is evidence of light dust accumulation within the frame. Only visible under raking light, there are a few, scattered faint surface scratches. Framed under Plexiglas.
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