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

Photographs

London Auction 25 September 2020

  • Provenance

    Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels

  • 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

Time Exposed

1991
Kyoto: Kyoto Shoin Co., Ltd, printed 1991. Fifty-one offset lithographs, each with blindstamp title, date and number on the mount. Title page. Colophon. Contained in an aluminium clamshell case. One from an edition of 500.
Fifty prints approximately 24 x 31 cm (9 1/2 x 12 1/4 in.). One print 25 x 38.2 cm (1 7/8 x 15 in.).

Estimate
£8,000 - 12,000 

Sold for £30,000

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Photographs

London Auction 25 September 2020