Lot 248
  • 248

Thomas Struth

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Thomas Struth
  • Iglesia de San Francisco, Lima, Peru
  • signed on a label affixed to the backing board
  • c-print face-mounted to Plexiglas, in artist's frame
  • Image: 66 7/8 by 89 in. 170 by 226 cm.
  • Overall: 72 by 94 in. 183.1 by 238.9 cm.
  • Executed in 2003, this work is number 8 from an edition of 10.

Provenance

Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

Berlin, Max Hetzler Gallery, Thomas Struth, January - March 2005 (another example exhibited)
Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Thomas Struth: Photographs 1978-2010, February - June 2011, pp. 91 & 205, illustrated in color

Literature

Hans Belting, Walter Grasskamp and Claudia Seidel, eds., Thomas Struth: Museum Photographs, Munich, 2005, pp. 79 & 106, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in excellent condition overall. Under raking light there are no visible scratches to the surface of the photograph. This work was not inspected outside of its frame. Framed under Plexiglas.
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