Lot 541
  • 541

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Hiroshi Sugimoto
  • Catherine of Aragon
  • signed on a label affixed to the reverse
  • gelatin silver print, mounted to aluminum
  • 58 3/4 by 47 in. 149.2 by 119.4 cm.
  • Executed in 1999, this work is number 4 from an edition of 5.

Provenance

Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Berlin, Deutsche Guggenheim, Sugimoto Portraits, March - May 2000, p. 81
Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution; Tokyo, Mori Art Museum, Hiroshi Sugimoto, September 2005 - May 2006, pp. 224 and 362, illustrated

Condition

This work is in excellent condition overall. The print is mounted to aluminum. Under raking light there is evidence of some light handling along the edges and at the corners and a few scattered, faint hairline surface scratches. There is a pinpoint surface accretion in the bottom right corner. Framed under Plexiglas. This work was not examined out of its frame.
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