Hiroshi Sugimoto (b. 1948)
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Hiroshi Sugimoto (b. 1948)

Regency, San Francisco

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Hiroshi Sugimoto (b. 1948)
Regency, San Francisco
blind stamped with the title and number ‘REGENCY 5/25 239' (along the lower margin); signed, titled, numbered and dated 'Regency San Francisco 1992 Hiroshi Sugimoto 5/25 239' (on the backing board)
gelatin silver print
image: 16¾ x 21¼in. (42.5 x 54cm.)
sheet: 19 1/8 x 23 5/8in. (48.6 x 60.1cm.)
Executed in 1992, this work is number five from an edition of twenty-five
Provenance
Sonnabend Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1994.
Literature
H. Belting, Theaters Hiroshi Sugimoto, New York 2000, pp. 90 and 222, no. 239 (another example from the edition, illustrated, p. 91).
Exhibited
Locarno, Galleria SPSAS, Motion Picture by Sugimoto, 1995 (another example exhibited, illustrated, unpaged).
Tokyo, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Photography and Beyond in Japan: Space, Time and Memory, p. 148, no.19 (another example exhibited). This exhibition later travelled to Mexico City, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Internacional Rufino Tamayo; Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; Denver, Denver Art Museum and Honolulu, The Contemporary Museum.
Bonn, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Through the Looking Brain: A Swiss Collection of Conceptual Photography, 2011-2012, p. 230 (another example exhibited, illustrated, p. 182). This exhibition later travelled to St. Gallen, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen.
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