Lot 523
  • 523

Olafur Eliasson

Estimate
70,000 - 100,000 USD
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Description

  • Olafur Eliasson
  • Melting Ice Series
  • signed on a label affixed to the backing board of the bottom right photograph

  • chromogenic print, in 20 parts
  • Each: 9 1/4 by 13 3/8 in. 23.5 by 34 cm.
  • Executed in 2002, this work is from an edition of 6.

Provenance

Neugerriemschneider, Berlin

Exhibited

Houston, The Menil Collection, Olafur Eliasson: Photographs, May - September 2004, p. 83, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Vienna, The Albertina, Infinite Ice: Traversing the Arctic and the Alps from 1860 to the Present, August - November 2008 (another example exhibited)

Condition

This work is in very good condition. Images (left to right; top to bottom) 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 19: appear in excellent condition. There are no apparent condition problems with these works. Image 5: there is a minute accretion 2 ½ inches from the bottom and 5 inches from the right. Image 6: there is a minute and unobtrusive scratch 3 inches from the left and 4 from the bottom. Image 7: there is a minute protrusion approximately 2 inches from the left and 4 inches from the top. Image 15: there is a minute handling crease on the right edge 3 inches from the bottom. Image 17: there is a minute surface accretion 4 inches from the top and 5 from the left. Image 20: there is a minute accretion 2 ½ inches from the bottom and 3 ½ inches from the left. All framed under glass. Not examined out of the frame.
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