Sale 9324
Los Angeles
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17 January 2001
Price realised
USD 446
Estimate
YASUHIRO ISHIMOTO (BORN 1921) Chicago (1962) Gelatin silver print. 1983. Signed in pencil in the margin. 7 x 10in. (17.9 x 25.4cm.) Framed.
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