Lot 395
  • 395

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Estimate
90,000 - 120,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Hiroshi Sugimoto
  • Baltic Sea, Rugen; three works
  • i. blindstamped with the title, date 1996 and number 15/25 451
    ii. blindstamped with the title, date 1996 and number 15/25 452
    iii. blindstamped with the title, date 1996 and number 15/25 450

  • gelatin silver prints
  • each: 16 1/2 by 21 1/4 in.
  • 41.9 by 54 cm.

Provenance

Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2001

Condition

These works are in very good condition overall. There are no apparent abrasions visible under raking light. Framed under Plexiglas.
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Catalogue Note

"A sea memory, I am quite sure that it's a memory of the sea.   Not a cloud in the sky, a sharp-edged horizon, waves surging in endlessly from beyond.  When I saw that vista, it was as if something in my infant consciousness awakened from a long dream.  I looked around at my hands and feet.  And then I seemed to be looking down on myself from above.  As if I were there merged into that seascape.  My life began from that moment." 

Hiroshi Sugimoto, "Noh such Thing as Time", Hiroshi Sugimoto, Architecture of Time, Eckhard Schneider ed., 2002, p.79