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Lot 426
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Thomas Struth

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Thomas Struth
  • Le Lignon, Geneve; Veddeler Brückenstrasse, Hamburg [Two Works]
  • i. signed, titled, dated 1989 and numbered 10/10 on the reverse
    ii. signed, titled, dated 1986 and numbered 7/10 on the reverse

  • gelatin silver prints
  • i. 18 by 23 1/2 in. 45.47 by 59.7 cm.
  • ii. 17 1/8 by 23 5/8 in. 43.5 by 60 cm.
  • i. Executed in 1989, this work is number 10 from an edition of 10. ii. Conceived in 1986 and executed in 1989, this work is number 7 from an edition of 10.

Provenance

i. Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

ii. Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne
Boston Children's Heart Foundation, Children's Hospital (acquired from the above in 1989)
Sotheby's, New York, May 6, 1997, lot 86
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

Exhibited

i. Geneva, Halle Sud; New York, The Clocktower Gallery, Thomas Struth, 1989, illustrated on invitation (another example exhibited)
Newport Beach, Newport Harbor Art Museum; Akron Art Museum; Washington D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; San Francisco Museum of Art, Typologies: Nine Contemporary Photographers, April 1991 - August 1992, n.p., illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
London, Institute of Contemporary Arts; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario; Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Thomas Struth: Strangers and Friends, Photographs 1986-1992, January 1994 - April 1995, p. 75, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Condition

These works are in very good overall condition. The sheets exhibit slight undulations. VEDDELER BRÜCKENSTRASSE, HAMBURG has yellowed slightly with age. Each framed under Plexiglas.
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