LOT DETAILS

Materials:

chromogenic print face-mounted to Plexiglas in artist's frame

Size Notes:

(overall)

Edition:

8 of 10

Markings:

signed 'Thomas Struth' (on a label affixed to the reverse)

Exhibited:

Berlin, Galerie Max Hetzler, Thomas Struth, 1995-1996 (another from the edition exhibited). Paris, Maison européene de la photographie, Allemagne, années 80, 1997 (another from the edition exhibited). Bellinzona, Centro d'Arte Contemporanea Ticino, TRANSIT Fotografia degli anni '90, 1997. Nîmes, Carré d'Art, Musée d'art contemporain de Nîmes, Still: Thomas Struth, 1998-1999, p. 113 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, pp. 64-65). This exhibition later travelled to Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum and Paris, Centre national de la photographie. Helmond, Gemeentemuseum Helmond, The power of beauty: de teru-gkeer van schoonheid in de hedendaagse kunst, 1999-2000, pp. 24-25 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 22). Grenoble, Musée de Grenoble, L'art d'aujourd'hui: un choix dans la collection du Fonds national d'art contemporain, 2002 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, unpaged). Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, Thomas Struth: 1977 2002, 2002, pp. 175 and 177 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 127). This exhibition later travelled to Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art. Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Wallflowers, 2002, no. 34 (another from the edition exhibited). Oslo, Galleri K, Museum Photographs 1987-2004, 2005 (another from the edition exhibited). Lugano, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Affinità e complementi: Opera dal musei svizzeri in dialogo con la collezione del Museo Cantonale d'Arte, 2007, p. 236, no. 181 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 201). Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof, Collection Exhibition, 2007 (another from the edition exhibited). New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions, 2008-2009, p. 136, no. 157 (another form the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 137). Athens, Museum of Cycladic Art Athens, Thomas Struth, 2009, p. 53 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 32). Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Thomas Struth: Fotografien 1978-2010, 2010-2012 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, pp. 89 and 205). This exhibition later travelled to Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K20 Grabbeplatz, London, Whitechapel Gallery and Porto, Museu de Serralves, Museu de Arte Contemporânea. Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Photographs by Candida Höfer and Thomas Struth, 2011 (another from the edition exhibited). Bonn, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Through the Looking Brain: A Swiss Collection of Conceptual Photography, 2011-2012, p. 229 (illustrated in colour, pp. 174-175). This exhibition later travelled to St. Gallen, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen. Marseille, La Friche Belle de Mai, Tour Panorama, Des images comme des oiseaux: Une traversée dans la collection photographique du Centre national des arts plastiques, 2013 (another from the edition exhibited).

Literature:

J. Lingwood, 'Open Visions', in Parkett, nos. 50-51, 1997 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 138-139). Photographies, no. 88, September-October 1997 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 39). H. Belting, W. Grasskamp and C. Seidel (eds.), Thomas Struth: Museum Photographs, Munich 2005, p. 7 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, pp. 4, 67 and 106). A. Kruszynski, T. Bezzola and J. Lingwood (eds.), Thomas Struth: Photographs 1978-2010, 2010 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, pp. 89, 169 and 205).

Provenance:

Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Milan. Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1995.