Thomas Struth - Photographs London Friday, October 25, 2019 | Phillips

Photographs

London Auction 25 October 2019

  • Description

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  • Provenance

    Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

  • Literature

    T. Struth, Thomas Struth: Photographs 1978-2010, Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2010, p. 221

  • 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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Property of a Private European Collector

Ж91

Thomas Struth

Museo del Prado 3, Madrid

2005
Chromogenic print, face-mounted to Diasec.
Image: 158 x 203 cm (62 1/4 x 79 7/8 in.)
Frame: 205.5 x 248 cm (80 7/8 x 97 5/8 in.)
Signed, titled, dated and numbered 1/10 in ink on the verso.

Estimate
£50,000 - 70,000 ‡♠

Sold for £60,000

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Photographs

London Auction 25 October 2019