Lot 129
  • 129

Sebastião Salgado

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Sebastião Salgado
  • i. Ecuador 1982ii. Brazil 1980iii. Mexico 1980
  • i. embossed with the artist's name; signed, titled and dated 1982 on the reverse

    ii. embossed with the artist's signature; signed, dated 1991 and inscribed Kuwait on the reverse

    iii. embossed with the artist's name; signed, titled and dated 1980 on the reverse

  • gelatin silver print, in 3 parts

  • each: 16 by 20 in. 40.6 by 50.8 cm.

Provenance

Janet Borden Inc., New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in November 1991

Literature

iii. Exh. Cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, An Uncertain Grace: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado, October - December 1990, pp. 140-141, illustrated

Condition

These works appear in generally very good overall condition. There is evidence of scattered soft handling creases. Each sheet is hinged intermittently to the archival matte verso. Each framed under Plexiglas.
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