Lot 163
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Thomas Struth (b. 1954)
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Thomas Struth (b. 1954)

Las Vegas 1

Details
Thomas Struth (b. 1954)
Las Vegas 1
signed 'Thomas Struth' (on a paper label affixed to the backing board)
chromogenic print
72¾ x 96¾in. (184.7 x 245.6cm.)
Executed in 1999, this work is number five from an edition of ten
Provenance
Marianne Goodman Gallery, New York.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York, 24 September 2009, lot 273.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Exhibited
Berlin, Galerie Max Hetzler, Thomas Struth, 2001 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 5).
Munich, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Neue Arbeiten, 2002 (another from the edition exhibited).
Prato, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Instant City: Fotografia e Metropoli, 2001 (another from the edition exhibited).
Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, Thomas Struth 1977-2002, 2002-2003 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 94). This exhibition later travelled to New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Art.
Naples, MADRE, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina,Thomas Struth, 2008 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, pp. 36-37).
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Reality Check: Truth and Illusion in Contemporary Photography, 2008-2009 (another from the edition exhibited).
Buenos Aires, Fundación Proa, Urban Spaces, Geography, Identity,
Urbanism, 2009 (another from the edition exhibited).
Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou: Musée national d'art moderne, Dreamlands, 2010 (another from the edition exhibited).
Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Thomas Struth Fotografien 1978-2010, 2010 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 93). This exhibition later travelled to Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen; London, Whitechapel Gallery and Porto, Fundaçâo Serralves.
Special Notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

'Taking a photograph is a curious act of selecting from the outside world. If you can believe in its depictorial quality, a photograph can be a valuable means of a thesis, antithesis, and communication. It has a clear language, one that speaks openly not only about its subjects, such as people, architecture and landscape - which, in a way, can be dislocated and brought together visually through a series of photographs - but also very much about the attitude of the photographer toward these things. In this regard, a photograph is always objective'. (T. Struth, quoted in 'Artist's Statement', Thomas Struth 1997-2002, exh. cat., Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas 2002, p. 166).

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