Lot 397
  • 397

Laurie Simmons

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • Laurie Simmons
  • The Music of Regrets VI
  • black and white photograph
  • 50.5 by 49.5cm.; 19 7/8 by 19 1/2 in.
  • Executed in 1994, this work is number 2 from an edition of 5.

Provenance

S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto
Metro Pictures, New York
Sale: Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, Photographs, 9 April 2011, Lot 257
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Rutgers, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, The State University of New Jersey; Rutgers, Center for the Arts-Stedman Art Gallery; Connecticut, Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery, A New Reality: Black-and-White Photography in Contemporary Art, 2007-8, p. 55, illustrated

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Visible only when inspected in raking light are a small number of extremely faint and unobtrusive scratches in isolated places.
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