Lot 297
  • 297

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description

  • Hiroshi Sugimoto
  • Hall of Thirty Three Bays
  • signed on the backing sheet; blindstamped with the numbers 6/25 024

  • gelatin silver print
  • image: 42.1 by 54cm.; 16 5/8 by 21 1/4 in.
  • sheet: 45 by 59.5cm.; 17 3/4 by 23 3/8 in.
  • Executed in 1995.

Provenance

Ileana Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Private Collection, London

Literature

G. Roger Denson, 'Belichtung und Erleuchtung: das Phäenomen des hermeneutischen Zirkels in Hiroshi Sugimoto's kontemplativer Photographie', in: Parkett, no. 46, Zürich 1996, p. 151, illustration of another example

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is deeper and richer, with greater contrast apparent in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition.
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