Lot 89
  • 89

Lewis Baltz (b.1945)

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Lewis Baltz
  • South Wall, Resources Recovery Systems, 1882 McGaw, Irvine, 1974
  • photograph
Vintage silver print. Signed, dated, numbered 5/21 and annotated IP5I in pencil by the photographer.

Provenance

Galerie Zabriskie, Paris

Literature

Lewis Baltz, The New Industrial Parks near Irvine, California, New York, Leo Castelli/Castelli Graphics, 1974, ill. pl. 51;
Sarah Greenough, e.a., On the Art of Fixing a Shadow. One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, The Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Boston, Bullfinch, 1989, ill. p. 400;
Andrew Roth, The Book of 101 Books. Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century, New York, PPP Editions/ Roth Horowitz LLC, 2001, ill. p. 229;
Emma Dexter/ Thomas Weski, Cruel and Tender. The Real in the Twentieth-Century Photograph, exh. cat., London, Tate Publishing, 2003, ill. p. 197.

Condition

The print is in good condition. With a slight fold of approx. 6 cm in the lower right corner and a very light small fold at the lower edge in the middle and with two almost invisible very light superficial handling marks.
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