Lot 70
  • 70

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO | Time Exposed, 1991

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 EUR
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Description

  • Hiroshi Sugimoto
  • Time Exposed, 1991
  • Prints 9 ½ x 12 ¼ in., cards 13  7/8  x 18 ¼ in.; box 14  1/8  x 18 ½ x 1 ½ in.(Lithographies 24 x 31 cm, cartons 35,2 x 46,3 cm, coffret 36 x 47 x 3,3 cm)
Portfolio printed in 1991 comprising 51 offset lithographs. Each titled, dated and blind stamped on the mount. Together with printed title, exhibition and plate list, and colophon signed in pencil. Folio, hinged brushed aluminum box with letterpress slipcase. Published by Kyoto Shoin Co., 1991 from an edition of 500.

Provenance

Private collection, Brussels

Literature

Martin Parr/ Gerry Badger, The Photobook. A History. Volume I, Londres, Phaidon, 2004, ill. p. 308
M.O.C.A., Sugimoto, for reproductions of a number of images in the set
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2007, ill. p. 108-143 ;
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Hiroshi Sugimoto : seascapes, Paris, Éditions Xavier Barral, 2015.

Condition

This portfolio is in overall very good condition. Every print with light traces of dried glu consistent with the mounting of the prints at the upper edge. Eight prints with either a light scratch, a light handling mark visible under raking light only or a tiny loss. All four corners of the box worn.
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Catalogue Note

© Hiroshi Sugimoto