Lot 533
  • 533

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
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Description

  • Hiroshi Sugimoto
  • Saint Benedict Chapel
  • signed on a label affixed to the reverse

  • gelatin silver print mounted on panel
  • 72 by 60 in. 182.8 by 152.4 cm.
  • Executed in 2000, this work is number 2 from an edition of 5.

Provenance

Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 2003

Exhibited

Bregenz, Kunsthaus; Bielefeld, Kunsthalle; Edinburgh, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Archictecture of Time, September 2001 - September 2002, illustrated
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sugimoto: Architecture, February - June 2003, p. 130, illustrated

Condition

Ths work is in excellent condition. There are no apparent condition problems with this work. Framed under glass in the artist's original frame.
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Catalogue Note

Photography is like a found object. A photographer never makes an actual subject, they just steal the image from the world.
Hiroshi Sugimoto