Lot 146
  • 146

Thomas Struth

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
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Description

  • Thomas Struth
  • Louvre III - Paris
  • signed on a label affixed to the backing board
  • chromogenic print
  • image: 106 by 123cm.; 41 3/4 by 48 1/2 in.
  • framed: 157 by 173cm.; 61 7/8 by 61 1/8 in.
  • Executed in 1989, this work is number 6 from an edition of 10.

Provenance

Skarstedt Fine Art, New York

Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Kyoto, National Museum of Art, Images in Transition, 1990 (edition no. unknown)

Washington, Hirshorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Directions, 1992 (edition no. unknown)

Wien, Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst, Das Bilder der Ausstellung - The Image of Exhibition, 1993 (edition no. unknown)

Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Photographie III - Thomas Struth - Museum Photographs, 1993-94 (edition no. unknown)

Hannover, Sprengel Museum, Die Orte der Kunst, 1994 (edition no. unknown)

Tuscon, Center for Creative Photography - Arizona University, Art Museum, 1994-95 (edition no. unknown)

Frankfurt am Main, Städel Museum, German Art - Deutsche Kunst aus Amerikanischer Sicht, 2004, (edition no. unknown)

Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart, Sammlungspräsentation, 2007, (edition no. unknown)

Frankfurt am Main, Städel Museum - DZ Bank, REAL Fotografien aus der Sammlung der DZ Bank, 2008 (edition no. unknown)

Athens, Museum of Cycladic Art, Thomas Struth, 2009 (edition no. unknown)

Frankfurt am Main, Städel Museum, Malerei in Fotografie - Strategien der Aneignung, 2012 (edition no. unknown)

Literature

Schirmer/Mosel, Eds., Thomas Struth: Museum Photographs, Munich 1993, pp. 2 and 22-23, another example illustrated in colour

Exhibition Catalogue: Hamburg, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Thomas Struth - Museum Photographs, 1993-94, p.33, no. 2, another example illustrated in colour

Schirmer/Mosel, Eds., Thomas Struth: Museum Photographs, Munich 2005, p. 23, another example illustrated in colour

Schirmer/Mosel, Eds., Thomas Struth, Munich 2009, p. 36, another example illustrated in colour

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate although the overall tonality is deeper and richer the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Close inspection reveals a tiny and unobtrusive chip to the extreme outer left edge of the frame, approximately 40cm. from the lower left corner.
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