Sale 1536
London
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2 July 2014
Price realised
GBP 22,500
Estimate
Hiroshi Sugimoto (b. 1948) Bay of Sagami. Atami blind stamped with the title, number and date 'BAY OF SAGAMI ATAMI 1997 18/25' (along the lower margin); signed 'Hiroshi Sugimoto' (along the lower right edge of the artist's mount) gelatin silver print image: 16 ½ x 21 ¼in. (42 x 54cm.) sheet: 18 ½ x 22 ¾in. (47 x 58cm.) Executed in 1997, this work is number eighteen from an edition of twenty-five
Provenance
Sonnabend Gallery, New York. Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich. Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1997.
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Exhibited
Bonn, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Through the Looking Brain: A Swiss Collection of Conceptual Photography, 2011-2012 (illustrated in colour, p. 229). This exhibition later travelled to St. Gallen, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen.
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