Lot 161
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BILL VIOLA | Hatsu Yume - First Dream

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Bill Viola
  • Hatsu Yume - First Dream
  • signed on the video and on a label on the video
  • three c-prints, VHS and book in portfolio 
  • each c-print: 40.3 by 50 cm. 15 7/8 by 19 5/8 in.
  • portfolio: 42 by 52 by 5 cm. 16 1/2 by 20 1/2 by 2 in.
  • Executed in 1981-2002, this work is number 6 from an edition of 15 plus 2 artist's proofs.
Portfolio edited in 2002 by Frameworks Vienna comprising a video tape and a signed book in the original clamshell box and three framed chromogenic prints, A, B and C, mounted to aluminium bearing a signed label on the reverse.Edition 6/15. (Porfolio publié par Frameworks Vienna en 2002 comprenant une cassette vidéo et un livre signé dans leur boîte originale et trois tirages chromogéniques encadrés, A, B et C, contrecollés sur aluminium et signés sur une étiquette au dos.Edition 6/15.)

Provenance

Frameworks, Vienna
Alexander Pühringer, Vienna
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Tokyo, Mori Art Museum; Kobe, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Bill Viola: Hatsu-Yume (First Dream), October 2006 - March 2007

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate. Condition: This work is in very good condition. The three photographs are individually framed. Close inspection reveals some light handling marks to the book and a crease running to the right side of the title page.
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