Hiroshi Sugimoto - Photographs London Friday, September 25, 2020 | Phillips

Photographs

London Auction 25 September 2020

  • Provenance

    Sonnabend Gallery, New York
    Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, 1995

  • Literature

    Sugimoto, Los Angeles: MOCA, 1993, n.p. (variant)
    Hiroshi Sugimoto, Düsseldorf: K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 2007 pp. 108-143 (variant)

  • 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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Hiroshi Sugimoto

Tyrrhenian Sea, Priano

1994
Gelatin silver print, mounted.
42 x 54.5 cm (16 1/2 x 21 1/2 in.)
Signed in pencil on the mount; blindstamp title, date and number '2/25, 409' in the margin.

Estimate
£12,000 - 18,000 

Sold for £37,500

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Photographs

London Auction 25 September 2020