Hiroshi Sugimoto (b. 1948)
Hiroshi Sugimoto (b. 1948)

Emperor Hirohito

Details
Hiroshi Sugimoto (b. 1948)
Emperor Hirohito
signed 'Hiroshi Sugimoto' (on a paper label affixed to the backing board)
gelatin silver print flush-mounted on board
58 ¾ x 47 in. (149.2 x 119.4 cm.)
Executed in 1999. This work is number three from an edition of five.
Provenance
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Private collection
Anon. sale; Phillips de Pury, New York, 12 May 2006, lot 359
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Exhibited
Berlin, Deutsche Guggenheim, Sugimoto Portraits, March-May 2000, pp. 152-153 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Tokyo, Mori Art Museum and Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Hiroshi Sugimoto, September 2005–May 2006, p. 243 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Dusseldorf, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen; Salzburg, Museum der Moderne; Berlin, SMB Nationalgalerie and Kunstmuseum Luzern, Hiroshi Sugimoto, July 2007–January 2009, p. 243 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Barcelona and Madrid, Fundación MAPFRE, Hiroshi Sugimoto: Black Box, February–September 2016, p. 107 (another example exhibited and illustrated).

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