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Andreas Gursky
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
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Description
- Andreas Gursky
- Düsseldorf Flughafen II
signed, titled and dated 94 on a label affixed to the reverse
- cibachrome print in artist's frame
- 185.8 by 232.8 by 5.4cm.; 73 1/8 by 91 5/8 by 2 1/8 in.
- Executed in 1994, this work is number 2 from an edition of 6.
Provenance
Galerie Mai 36, Zürich
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Literature
Exhibition Catalogue, Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum, & travelling, Andreas Gursky: Fotografien 1994-1998, 1988, p. 3, illustration of another example in colour
Condition
Colour:
The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is slightly softer, with a rose hue overall in the original.
Condition:
This work is in very good condition. Along the frame there is a short rub mark to the centre left of the bottom edge, a small chip to the top right hand corner and a further one to the top left hand corner. There are two pin-sized media spots to the top left hand corner of the white border. There is a pin-sized spot of paper loss to the right hand edge towards the bottom right hand corner of the image, and a minute white media accretion to the bottom right hand corner of the image.
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"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
Catalogue Note
"The first time I saw photographs by Andreas Gursky...I had the disorienting sensation that something was happening—happening to me, I suppose, although it felt more generalized than that. Gursky's huge, panoramic color prints—some of them up to six feet high by ten feet long—had the presence, the formal power, and in several cases the majestic aura of nineteenth-century landscape paintings, without losing any of their meticulously detailed immediacy as photographs. Their subject matter was the contemporary world, seen dispassionately and from a distance." Calvin Tomkins, 'The Big Picture', in: The New Yorker, 22 January 2001