Lot 80
  • 80

Jeff Wall

Estimate
600,000 - 800,000 USD
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Description

  • Jeff Wall
  • The Forest
  • silver gelatin print
  • 94 1/8 x 119 1/4 in. 239.1 x 302.9 cm.
  • Executed in 2001, this work is from an edition of two plus one artist's proof.

Provenance

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in November 2002


Exhibited

Cologne, Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Jeff Wall, September - October 2002 (another example)
New York, Marian Goodman Gallery, Jeff Wall: New Work, September - November 2002
Munich, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Jeff Wall, November 2002 - January 2003 (another example)
Paris, Galerie Marian Goodman, Jeff Wall, November 2002 - January 2003 (another example)
Vienna, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna, Jeff Wall: Photographs, March - May 2003, p. 59, illustrated (another example)
London, Tate Modern; Basel, Schaulager, Jeff Wall - Photographs 1978 - 2004, April 2005 - January 2006, (Basel only)

Literature

Michaël Amy, "Jeff Wall," Tema Celeste, November - December 2002, p. 77
Jean François Chevrier, "The Spectres of the Everyday," de Duve/Pélenc/Groys, 2002, p. 183 and 188
Daniel Kunitz, "Art Gallery Chronicle," The New Criterion, Vol. 21, No. 4, December 2002, p. 61
Alexander Hosch, "The Great Wall," Architectural Digest (Los Angeles), March 2003, p. 53
Theodora Vischer and Heidi Naef, eds., Jeff Wall: Catalogue Raisonné, 1978 - 2004, Basel, 2005, cat. no. 100, p. 237, illustrated in color and p. 409, illustrated

Condition

This photograph is in excellent condition. Structurally, there is a horizontal paper seam running the entire width of the photograph, located 47 ¼ in. from the top. The work is framed in a gray painted wood frame under Plexiglas, measuring 99 3/8 x 123 ½ x 3 in. The photograph was not examined out of the frame.
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