Lot 64
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Bernd & Hilla Becher

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
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Description

  • Bernd and Hilla Becher
  • Blast Furnace Heads C
  • top left image: signed and titled on the reverse; each: numbered on the reverse
  • nine gelatin silver prints mounted on cardboard
  • each (image): 40.2 by 30.6cm.; (framed): 56.4 by 46.2cm.; overall: 174 by 140cm
  • (image): 15 3/4 by 12in.; (framed): 22 1/4 by 18 1/8 in.; overall: 68 1/2 by 55 1/8 in.
  • Executed in 1989.

Provenance

Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Literature

Venice, XLIV Biennale Internazionale dell'Arte, 1990, p. 205, other examples illustrated as part of a different typology
Bernd & Hilla Becher, Blast Furnaces, Massachussets 1991, n/p., various illustrations of single images; also pls. 67, 71, 73 
Bernd & Hilla Becher, Typologies, Schirmer/Mosel, Munich 1999, n/p., other examples illustrated as part of a different typology
Armin Zweite, ed., Bernd & Hilla Becher, Typologies, Munich, 2005, pl. 94, other examples illustrated as part of a different typology

Catalogue Note

left to right, top to bottom:

no title
Herrenwyk, Lübeck D
Duisberg-Bruchhausen, Germany
Völkingen, Saarland
Esch-Alzette, Terre Rouge L.
Rombad, Lorraine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA
Johnstown, Pennsylvania USA