Lot 118
  • 118

Thomas Struth

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Thomas Struth
  • Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo, 1991
  • signed, titled, dated 1991 and numbered 3/10 on the reverse 

  • C-print
  • 73 7/8 by 96 3/4 in. 187.6 by 245.7 cm.
  • Executed in 1991.

Provenance

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in April 1999

Exhibited

Dallas Museum of Art; Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Thomas Struth 1977-2002, May 2002 - September 2003, p. 55, illustrated in color
Seattle, Henry Art Gallery; University of Washington; West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art; Tampa Museum of Art; Chicago Cultural Center, Crosscurrents at Century's End: Selections from the Neuberger Berman Art Collection, June 2003 - June 2004, pl. XLIX, p. 109, illustrated in color

 

Literature

Richard Sennett, Thomas Struth: Strangers and Friends, Cambridge, 1994, pp. 43-44, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. There are a few scattered and unobtrusive rub marks and faint surface abrasions throughout the Plexiglas barely visible under raking light. Otherwise there are no apparent condition problems with this work. Framed.
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