Contemporary Photographs
Contemporary Photographs
Property of a Swiss Corporate Collection
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Water Towers
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October 5, 06:13 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Bernd and Hilla Becher
1931-2007 and 1934-2015
Water Towers
a sequence of 15 gelatin silver prints, each ferrotyped, signed and numbered sequentially and the first annotated with a sequence map in pencil on the reverse, framed together, 1963-80
images: each 9½ by 6½ in. (24.1 by 16.5 cm.)
overall: 29 ¼ by 34 ¼ in. (74.3 by 87 cm.)
frame: 37 ½ by 41 ¾ in. (95.3 by 106 cm.)
cf. Bernd and Hilla Becher (La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, 1974), cat. nos. 11-17
Bernd and Hilla Becher, Water Towers (Cambridge, 1989), pls. 3, 83, 92, 97, 122-23, 204, and 222