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Bernd and Hilla Becher

'Kühlturme' [Cooling Towers]

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October 17, 04:02 PM GMT

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Bernd and Hilla Becher

1931 - 2007 and 1934 - 2015

'Kühlturme' [Cooling Towers]


a diptych, comprising 2 ferrotyped gelatin silver prints, each signed and sequenced '16A' and '16B,' respectively, in pencil on the reverse, signed, titled and dated in pencil on the mount, framed together, Paula Cooper Gallery, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, David Nolan, Sprüth Magers, and André Simoens labels on the reverse

images: 16 by 12 in. (40.6 by 30.5 cm.)

frame: 27½ by 36 in. (69.9 by 91.4 cm.)

Executed in 1973.

Galeria Forma, Genoa

Private Collection

Christie's New York, 20 May 1999, Sale 9170, Lot 231

Private Collection

Christie's London, 5 December 2005, Sale 5821, Lot 133

André Simoens, Knokke

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Armin Zweite, ed., Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies (Cambridge, 2004), no. 20 and 30 (variant)