Lot 442
442
Elger Esser (b. 1967)
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Elger Esser (b. 1967)

Cote d'Étretat, Frankreich, 2000

Details
Elger Esser (b. 1967)
Cote d'Étretat, Frankreich, 2000
signed and numbered 'Elger Esser X-III/VIII' (on a label affixed to the reverse)
colour coupler print mounted with Diasec in wooden artist frame
50 1/8 x 70¾in. (127.3 x 179.7cm.)
Executed in 2002, this work is number three from an edition of eight
Provenance
Sonnabend Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Elger Esser: Cap d'Antifer-Étretat, Munich 2002 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, on the cover and on the inside, unpaged).
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Lot Essay

Elger Esser's Cap d'Antifer-Étretat series comprises fifteen photographs representing a visual journey along the coast of Normandy between Le Havre and Fécamp. This journey that Esser takes us on is intended to parallel that made by two men in Gustave Flaubert's unfinished satire on human stupidity, Bouvard and Pécuchet (1880s). In writing the novel and struggling with an accurate visual description of the location, Flaubert asked his friend and disciple Maupassant (a native of the region) to suggest an ideal location and describe it in detail. One hundred and thirty years later, Esser has picked up his camera and continued on in Maupassant's footsteps.

The present work, included in Esser's Cap d'Antifer-Étretat series, depicts old basins left behind by French oyster catchers disposed of along the picturesque shores of the Normandy coast.

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