Hiroshi Sugimoto - Photographs New York Wednesday, April 6, 2022 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Sonnabend Gallery, New York

  • Literature

    Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston and Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Sugimoto, p. 67

  • Artist Biography

    Hiroshi Sugimoto

    Japanese • 1948

    Hiroshi Sugimoto's work examines the concepts of time, space and the metaphysics of human existence through breathtakingly perfect images of theaters, mathematical forms, wax figures and seascapes. His 8 x 10 inch, large-format camera and long exposures give an almost eerie serenity to his images, treating the photograph as an ethereal time capsule and challenging its associations of the 'instant.' 

    In his famed Seascapes, Sugimoto sublimely captures the nature of water and air, sharpening and blurring the elements together into a seamless, formless entity.  This reflection of the human condition and its relationship with time follows through his exploration of historical topics and timeless beauty as he uniquely replicates the world around us.

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Property of an Esteemed New York Collection

136

Ionian Sea, Santa Cesarea

1993
Gelatin silver print.
16 1/2 x 21 1/4 in. (41.9 x 54 cm)
Signed and annotated '423' in pencil on the mount; blindstamp title, date and number '1/25, 423' in the margin.

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for $44,100

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New York Auction 6 April 2022