Sale 1985
New York
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11 April 2008
Price realised
USD 10,625
Estimate
ALEC SOTH (B. 1969) The Farm, Angola State Prison, Louisiana, 2002 chromogenic print, printed 2006 signed in ink on an artist's label affixed (on the reverse of the flush-mount); number 9 from an edition of 10 32 x 40in. (81.3 x 101.6cm.)
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Literature
Soth, Sleeping by the Mississippi, Steidl, 2004, n.p.
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