Lot Essay
These photographs, each numbered 'PP,' are outside the sold-out and no longer available edition of 25. Titles and images available upon request.
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Various works from Chamber of Horrors and Portraits, 1990s
Details
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO (b.1948)
Various works from Chamber of Horrors and Portraits, 1990s
38 gelatin silver prints
each signed and numbered 'PP' in pencil on mount; 10 with blindstamp titles, number 'PP' in margins; signed, titled, dated, and variously numbered in pencil on mounts
each approx. 16 5/8 x 21¼in. (42.2 x 53.9cm) or reverse (38)
Various works from Chamber of Horrors and Portraits, 1990s
38 gelatin silver prints
each signed and numbered 'PP' in pencil on mount; 10 with blindstamp titles, number 'PP' in margins; signed, titled, dated, and variously numbered in pencil on mounts
each approx. 16 5/8 x 21¼in. (42.2 x 53.9cm) or reverse (38)
Provenance
Gift of the artist to Madame Tussauds, London, 2000, presented in exchange for photographing the wax figures in the museum's collection.
Literature
For a selection of images from these two series: Brougher & Elliott, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden/Smithsonian Institution/Mori Art Museum, Tokyo/Hatje Cantz, 2005; Spector et al, Sugimoto Portraits, Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin/Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2000.
Special Notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.
Sale Room Notice
According to the Sugimoto Studio, the 29 vertical portraits in this lot are unique in this size. The remaining 9 horizontal portraits are outside the sold-out edition of 25.