Lot 302
  • 302

Thomas Struth

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description

  • Thomas Struth
  • Musée D'Orsay II, Paris
  • signed, titled, dated Paris 1989 and numbered 9/10 on the reverse
  • color coupler print mounted on Plexiglas
  • 88 1/4 by 72 in. 224.2 by 182.9 cm.
  • Executed in 1989, this work was printed in 1990 and is number 9 from an edition of 10.

Provenance

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

Exhibited

Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Painting into Photography, Photography into Painting, December 1996 - February 1997, p. 47, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Duisburg, Museum Küppersmühle - Sammlung Grothe, Photo Und Papier, February - May 2000 (another example exhibited)
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh Collects, February - April 1993 (another example exhibited)

Literature

Hans Belting, ed., Thomas Struth: Museum Photographs, Munich, 1993, no. 6, p. 41, illustrated in color
Carel Balth, The Beauty of Intimacy: Lens and Paper, The Hague, 2000, p. 141

Condition

This work appears in very good condition overall. The Plexiglas surface exhibits fine scattered abrasions and a few drip accretions. The frame appears in sound condition. Otherwise there are no apparent condition problems with this work.
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