North Atlantic Ocean, Cape Breton Island

Details

Hiroshi Sugimoto (b. 1948)
North Atlantic Ocean, Cape Breton Island
signed 'Sugimoto' (on a paper label affixed to the reverse of the frame)
gelatin silver print flush-mounted on board
sheet/flush mount: 47 x 58 ¾ in. (119.4 x 149.2 cm.)
Executed in 1996. This work is number three from an edition of five.

Provenance

The Pace Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2010

Literature

P. Hay Halpert, J. Lageira, K. Brougher and J. Yau, Sugimoto, exh. cat., Madrid, Fundación "la Caixa", 1998, pp. 170-171 (another example illustrated).
T. Matsumoto, ed., Hiroshi Sugimoto: Seascapes, Bologna, 2015, pp. 195 and 272 (another example illustrated).

Exhibited

Tokyo, Mori Art Museum; Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; San Francisco, de Young Museum; Düsseldorf, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen; Salzburg, Museum der Moderne; Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie and Kunstmuseum Luzern, Hiroshi Sugimoto, September 2005-January 2009, pp. 141 and 389 (another example illustrated and exhibited).
New York, The Pace Gallery, Hiroshi Sugimoto: The Day After, November-December 2010, pp. 34-35 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

Water and air. So very commonplace are these substances, they hardly attract attention―and yet they vouchsafe our very existence. ...Mystery of mysteries, water and air are right there before us in the sea. Every time I view the sea, I feel a calming sense of security, as if visiting my ancestral home; I embark on a voyage of seeing.
—Hiroshi Sugimoto

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