Untitled II

Details

Andreas Gursky (b. 1955)
Untitled II
signed, titled and numbered 'Ohne Titel II 6/6 Andreas Gursky' (on a paper label affixed to the reverse)
Cibachrome print
image: 55 3/8 x 70 1/8in. (140.6 x 178cm.)
overall: 71 x 84¾in. (180.4 x 215.4cm.)
Executed in 1993, this work is number six from an edition of six

Provenance

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York.
Private Collection, Sydney.
De Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich.
Private Collection, Norway.
Anon. sale, Phillips de Pury New York, 14 May 2004, lot 196.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

F. Bradley (ed.), Andreas Gursky: Images, London 1995 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 29).
S. Gronert, Great Illusions: Demand Gursky Ruscha, Miami 1998 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 18).

Exhibited

Dusseldorf, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Andreas Gurksy Photographs from 1984 to the Present, 1998, no. 30 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, unpaged).
Duisberg, Museum Küppersmuhle-Sammlung Grothe, Photo und Papier, 2000 (another from the edition exhibited).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Andreas Gurksy, 2001, no. 39 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 137).
Krefeld, Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Andreas Gurksy Werke Works 80-08, 2008-2009 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 111). This exhibition later travelled to Stockholm, Moderna Museet and Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery.

Special Notice

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