Lot 148
  • 148

Thomas Struth

Estimate
35,000 - 45,000 GBP
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Description

  • Thomas Struth
  • Paradise 13, Yakushima/Japan
  • signed on a label affixed to the backing board
  • c-print
  • image: 159.3 by 201.5 cm. 62 3/4 by 79 1/4 in.
  • framed: 172.8 by 215.3 cm. 68 by 84 3/4 in.
  • Executed in 1999, this work is number 3 from an edition of 10

Provenance

Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2000

Exhibited

Paris, Marian Goodman Gallery, Thomas Struth: New Pictures from Paradise, November - December 1999 (edition no. unknown)

Tokyo, The National Film Center, The National Museum of Modern Art; and Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art, Thomas Struth: My Portrait, October 2000 - February 2001, n.p., illustrated on the front cover (edition no. unknown) 

Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich; Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen K20 Grabbeplatz; London, Whitechapel Gallery; and Porto, Museu de Arte Contemporânea Serralves, Thomas Struth: Fotografien 1978 - 2010, June 2010 - January 2012, n.p., illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown) 

Condition

Colour: The colour in the catalogue illustration is fairly accurate. Condition: This work is in very good condition.
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Catalogue Note

"I am very fascinated with complex structures and depth of vision and detail. The Jungle Pictures have no immediate history of reference, so you must surrender your usual faculties and analytical tools and surrender to just looking. There is nothing to think about too much, so the act of looking becomes more meditative" (Thomas Struth cited in: Sean O’Hagan, ‘Thomas Struth’s photography’, The Guardian, 3 July 2011, online).