Prints & Photographs Part I

Prints & Photographs Part I

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Property from an Esteemed American Collection

Bernd and Hilla Becher

Water Towers

Live auction begins on:

April 14, 04:00 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 USD

Bid

130,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Esteemed American Collection

Bernd and Hilla Becher

1931 - 2007 and 1934 - 2015


Water Towers

15 ferrotyped gelatin silver prints, sequentially numbered 1-15 and the first signed by both artists and annotated with a sequence map in pencil on the reverse, framed, Sonnabend Gallery labels on the reverse

each image: 16 ⅛ by 10 ⅞ in. (41 by 27.6 cm.)

Executed in 1972-1998, printed in 2006, this work is unique.

Sonnabend Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in 2007 by the present owner

Bernd and Hilla Becher: Water Towers, Cambridge 1988, pls. 113, 126-30, 132-35, 137, and 221

Bernd & Hilla Becher: Typologies, Cambridge 2004, pl. 2

The photographs are sequenced as below:


1- Mántova, I (1986)

2- Velbert, Rheinland, D (1977)

3- Vitry-le-François, F (1972)

4- Büchen-Niedersachen, D (1980)

5- Diepholz, Westfalen, D (1979)

6- Völklingen, Saarland, D (1986)

7- Langweid|Augsberg, D (1987)

8- Volkmarsen, Hessen, D (1980)

9- Liège, B (1980)

10- Rodange, L (1979)

11- Arolsen, Hessen, D (1980)

12- Rodange, L (1980)

13- La Combelle, Puy-de-Dôme, F (1981)

14- Kaiserslautern-Einsiedlerhof, D (1981)

15- Hohnstädt/Grimma, D (1998)