LOT DETAILS

Materials:

gelatin silver print, in twenty parts

Size Notes:

overall; each: 40.5 x 31cm

Edition:

unique

Markings:

signed, titled and dated 'WATERTOWERS 1988 Bernd Becher Hilla Becher' (on the reverse of the first print and backing board); each consecutively inscribed and numbered 'W1-20' (on the reverse of the print and backing board)

Exhibited:

Bonn, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Through the Looking Brain: A Swiss Collection of Conceptual Photography, 2011-2012 (illustrated in colour, pp. 66-67). This exhibition later travelled to St. Gallen, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen.

Provenance:

Sonnabend Gallery, New York. Private Collection, New York.Anon. sale, Christie’s New York, 4 May 1995, lot 221.Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.