Bernd and Hilla Becher
'Förderturm, Kleinzeche, Pennsylvania' (Erdmann Brothers Coal Co., Valley View, Schuykill County)
Auction Closed
October 25, 04:33 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Bernd and Hilla Becher
1931-2007 and 1934-2015
'Förderturm, Kleinzeche, Pennsylvania' (Erdmann Brothers Coal Co., Valley View, Schuykill County)
gelatin silver print, ferrotyped, signed, titled, and annotated in pencil on the reverse, framed, 1974
image: 4¾ by 6⅝ in. (12.1 by 16.8 cm.)
frame: 14⅞ by 17 in. (37.8 by 43.2 cm.)
Kicken Gallery, Berlin, 2004
Typologies: Nine Contemporary Photographers (Newport Beach, CA: Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1991), p. 39
Bernd & Hilla Becher: Pennsylvania Coal Mine Tipples (New York, 1991), no. 32
Bernd & Hilla Becher: Coal Mines and Steel Mills (Munich, 2010), pl. 74
