Lot 326
  • 326

Thomas Demand

Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description

  • Thomas Demand
  • SpĆ¼le (Sink)
  • signed, dated 1997 and numbered 1/5 on the wooden support
  • c-print face mounted to diasec
  • 20 3/4 by 22 1/8 in. 57.8 by 56.2 cm.

Provenance

303 Gallery, New York
Private Collection
Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, November 11, 2005, lot 167
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

Exhibited

Kunstmuseum Bonn; North Miami, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Grand Illusions: Demand, Gursky, Ruscha, 1999, p. 23, illustrated

Literature

Exh. Cat., Paris, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Thomas Demand, 2000, p. 11
Martha Schwendener, "Thomas Demand: Foggy Intersection of Photography and Truth," Flash Art, October 2000, p. 62, illustrated
Exh. Cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art, Thomas Demand, 2005, pp. 68-69, illustrated

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. Under raking light there are a few scattered, very faint hairline surface scratches to the Diasec face. The print is mounted to the backing board and face-mounted to Diasec. Unframed.
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