Lot Essay
This photograph is the cover of Alec Soth: Sleeping by the Mississippi (First Edition, Steidl, Göttingen, 2004)
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Cape Girardeau, Missouri, 2002
Details
ALEC SOTH (B. 1969)
Cape Girardeau, Missouri, 2002
chromogenic print
signed, titled, dated [with print date] and numbered '9 / 15' in ink (verso); credited, titled and dated on exhibition label (frame backing board)
image: 15 7⁄8 x 20 in. (40.3 x 50.8 cm.)
sheet: 19 ¾ x 24 in. (50.2 x 61 cm.)
This work is number nine from an edition of fifteen.
Cape Girardeau, Missouri, 2002
chromogenic print
signed, titled, dated [with print date] and numbered '9 / 15' in ink (verso); credited, titled and dated on exhibition label (frame backing board)
image: 15 7⁄8 x 20 in. (40.3 x 50.8 cm.)
sheet: 19 ¾ x 24 in. (50.2 x 61 cm.)
This work is number nine from an edition of fifteen.
Provenance
Gagosian Gallery, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 2005.
acquired from the above by the present owner, 2005.
Literature
Alec Soth, Alec Soth: Sleeping by the Mississippi, First Edition, Steidl, Göttingen, 2004, cover and n.p.
Alec Soth, Alec Soth: Sleeping by the Mississippi, Third Edition, Steidl, Göttingen, 2008, back cover and n.p.
Siri Engberg et al., From Here to There: Alec Soth's America, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2010, p. 53.
Alec Soth, Alec Soth: Sleeping by the Mississippi, Third Edition, Steidl, Göttingen, 2008, back cover and n.p.
Siri Engberg et al., From Here to There: Alec Soth's America, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2010, p. 53.
Exhibited
San Francisco, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, Real to Real: Photographs from the Trevor Traina Collection, June 9, 2012 - September 16, 2012.
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This photograph is the cover of Alec Soth: Sleeping by the Mississippi (First Edition, Steidl, Göttingen, 2004)