Thomas Struth - 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Evening Sale Hong Kong Saturday, May 26, 2018 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    Nîmes, Carré d'Art; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Paris, Centre national de la photographie, Still, 14 March - 7 June 1998 (another example exhibited and illustrated in colour)
    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Age of Influence: Reflection in the Mirror of American Culture, 14 March - 26 November 2000 (another example exhibited)
    Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art; Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art, My Portrait, 3 October - 9 December 2000 (another example exhibited)

  • Artist Biography

    Thomas Struth

    Thomas Struth is a German photographer best known for his large-scale, classically composed photos of museum, cityscapes, and family portraits. Struth is a prominent member of the Düsseldorf School of Photography, the group of artists who studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the mid-1970s under influential photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher. Struth’s highly centralized, balanced photos incorporate cutting-edge photographic techniques and the tenets of classical composition to develop the documentarian aims of the Bechers.

    Struth’s work has been widely celebrated by the international art community. He represented Germany at the 44th Venice Biennale in 1990 and has been the subject of major retrospectives including those at the Dallas Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Haus der Kunst, Munich. He lives and works in Berlin and New York.

     
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Todai-Ji, Daibutsu-Den, Nara

1996
signed 'T. Struth' on a label affixed to the reverse
colour coupler print face-mounted to plexiglas
image: 178.3 x 229.2 cm. (70 1/4 x 90 1/4 in.)
sheet: 181 x 235 cm. (71 1/4 x 92 1/2 in.)

Executed in 1996, this work is number 8 from an edition of 10.

Estimate
HK$300,000 - 600,000 
€32,300-64,600
$38,500-76,900

Sold for HK$275,000

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20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Evening Sale

Hong Kong Auction 27 May 2018