Lot 556
  • 556

Bernd and Hilla Becher

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Bernd and Hilla Becher
  • Zeche Dahlbusch 1, Gelsenkirchen, D 1968; RĂ©gion Saint-Etienne, F 1970; Zeche Julius-Philip, Bochum, D 1968; Zeche Westhausen, Dortmund, D 1969 [Four Works]
  • i. signed and numbered M1 on the reverse
    ii. numbered M2 on the reverse
    iii. numbered M3 on the reverse
    iv. numbered M4 on the reverse
  • gelatin silver prints
  • Each: 15 7/8 by 12 1/8 in. 40.4 by 30.7 cm.
  • Executed in 1968-70.

Provenance

Leo Koenig Inc., New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Literature

Armin Zweite, ed., Bernd & Hilla Becher Typologies, Cambridge, 2004, p. 66-67, illustrated 

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. There is evidence of light wear and handling to the edges and corners of the photographs. Each work is hinged verso intermittently along the edges. Framed under glass.
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