Lot 572
  • 572

Sophie Calle

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Sophie Calle
  • Chambre d'Hotel (#24)
  • ektachrome print and 8 gelatin silver prints mounted on board, diptych

     

  • each: 41 by 57 in. 104.1 by 144.8 cm.
  • Executed in 1986, this work is one from an edition of 3.

Provenance

Fred Hoffman Gallery, Santa Monica

Exhibited

Paris, Centre Nacional de la Photographie, Doubles Jeux, September - November 1998
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Hotel, l'Hotel, October 1998 - January 1999, pp. 181 and 185, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Literature

Sophie Calle, L'hôtel, Paris, 1984, pp. 81-85, illustrated and illustrated in color on the cover (detail)
Christine Macel, Sophie Calle: Did You See Me?, New York, 2004, n.p., illustrated

Condition

This work is in very good condition. The photographic images are securely mounted to board. There are few scattered scratches to the Plexiglas but the works themselves are free of any apparent condition problems. Each is framed under Plexiglas in black wood.
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