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Polar Bear
Details
Hiroshi Sugimoto (b. 1948)
Polar Bear
blind stamped 'POLAR BEAR 18/25 105' (lower edge) and signed, titled numbered and dated 'Polar Bear 1976 Hiroshi Sugimoto 18/25 105' (on the mount)
gelatin silver print mounted on paper
20 x 25¾ in. (50.8 x 65.4 cm.)
Executed in 1976. This work is number eighteen from an edition of twenty-five.
Polar Bear
blind stamped 'POLAR BEAR 18/25 105' (lower edge) and signed, titled numbered and dated 'Polar Bear 1976 Hiroshi Sugimoto 18/25 105' (on the mount)
gelatin silver print mounted on paper
20 x 25¾ in. (50.8 x 65.4 cm.)
Executed in 1976. This work is number eighteen from an edition of twenty-five.
Provenance
Sonnabend, New York
Olivier Renaud-Clément, New York
Olivier Renaud-Clément, New York
Literature
R. Rugoff, 'Halbot', Parkett No. 46, 1996, p. 146 (illustrated).
A. Koyanagi, Hiroshi Sugimoto: Dioramas, Theatres, Seascapes, Japan 1998, n.p. (illustrated).
A. Koyanagi, Hiroshi Sugimoto: Dioramas, Theatres, Seascapes, Japan 1998, n.p. (illustrated).
Exhibited
Rockford Art Museum, Lifelike, May - July 2001.
Tokyo, Mori Art Museum and Washington, D.C., Hirsshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Hiroshi Sugimoto, September 2005-May 2006, p. 70 (illustrated; another from the edition exhibited).
Tokyo, Mori Art Museum and Washington, D.C., Hirsshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Hiroshi Sugimoto, September 2005-May 2006, p. 70 (illustrated; another from the edition exhibited).
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.