Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Details

Hiroshi Sugimoto (B. 1948)
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
signed in Japanese 'Hiroshi Sugimoto' (on a label affixed to the reverse)
gelatin silver print laid on board, in artist's frame
image: 58 ½ x 46 7/8in. (148.7 x 119.2cm.)
overall: 71 ¾ x 60 1/8in. (182.3 x 152.4cm.)
Executed in 1999, this work is number four from an edition of five

Provenance

Sonnabend Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2005.

Literature

Hiroshi Sugimoto, exh. cat., Washington, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Tokyo, Mori Art Museum, 2005 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p.235).

Exhibited

Berlin, Deutsche Guggenheim, Sugimoto Portraits, 2000 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 131).

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