Taryn Simon

2 oversized chromogenic prints, comprising Fidel Castro and Vincent Moto, each flush-mounted to aluminum, signed in ink and with Buhl Collection and Gagosian Gallery labels on the reverse, framed, 2002 and 2003, each no. 1 in an edition of 5 (2)

Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2003

Palm Beach Photographic Centre, In Good Hands: Selected Works from the Buhl Collection, March 2011

Middletown, Delaware, Warner Gallery at St. Andrew's School, In Good Hands: Selected Works from the Buhl Collection, October - November 2011

These chromogenic prints are in essentially excellent condition. These prints are framed unglazed. Upon close examination in raking light, a few scattered hairline surface scuffs are visible. The full titles and edition number for each print are given on the printed Gagosian Gallery labels on the reverse of each frame: Fidel Castro (After dinner in his palace), 2003, edition 1/5 Vincent Moto (Scene of arrest, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with son Andre, who was three months old and with Moto at the time of arrest, served 8 years of 12 to 24 years sentence), 2002, edition 1/5
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