Lot 200
200
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO (B. 1948)
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO (B. 1948)

Lightning Fields 144

Details
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO (B. 1948)
Lightning Fields 144
signed 'Sugimoto' (on a label affixed to the reverse)
gelatin silver print in artist's frame
71 7/8 x 60in. (182.5 x 152.5cm.)
Executed in 2010, this work is number four from an edition of five
Provenance
Private Collection, Tokyo.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
P. Yeoh, 'Capturing Light: An interview with Hiroshi Sugimoto', in Glass Magazine, Issue 2, 2010 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 124).
Exhibited
San Francisco, Fraenkel Gallery, Hiroshi Sugimoto: Lightning Fields, 2009 (another from the edition exhibited).
Shizuoka, IZU PHOTO MUSEUM, HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: NATURE OF LIGHT, 2009-2010 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated, on the cover and p. 94).

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Lot Essay

‘I see the spark of life itself, the lightning that struck the primordial ooze’

(H. Sugimoto, quoted in Hiroshi Sugimoto: Lightning Fields, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, September, 2009)

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