Lot 56
  • 56

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 GBP
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Description

  • Hiroshi Sugimoto
  • Catherine Howard
  • signed on a label affixed to the reverse
  • gelatin silver print in artist's frame
  • image: 149.2 by 119.4cm.; 58 3/4 by 47in.
  • overall: 182 by 152.2cm.; 71 3/4 by 60in.
  • Executed in 1999, this work is number 2 from an edition of 5.

Provenance

Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Sale: Replica Shoes 's, London, Contemporary Art, 9 February 2006, Lot 64
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Literature

Exhibition Catalogue, Berlin, Deutsche Guggenheim Museum; Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum, Sugimoto: Portraits, 2000, p. 89, illustration of another example
Exhibition Catalogue, Tokyo, Mori Art Museum; Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Hiroshi Sugimoto: End of t.mes , 2005, p. 228, illustration of another example

Catalogue Note

"Art History turned out to be important in Portraits. My objective this t.mes was to do wax portraits, and I became as fascinated in the history behind the figures as I was about the history of portrait painting and the history of the wax museum. The more I studied, the more interested I became." (In: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Sugimoto: Portraits, New York 2000, p. 27)