Auction A536
The Bayer Collection
By VAN HAM Kunstauktionen GmbH Co. KG
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Tuesday, Jun 3, 18:00
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LOT 148:
Andreas Gursky: Zoobrücke, Köln
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Start price:
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8,000
Estimate :
€10,000 - €15,000
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Andreas Gursky: Zoobrücke, Köln
GURSKY, ANDREAS
1955 Leipzig
Title: Zoobrücke, Köln.
Date: 1988.
Technique: C-Print.
Depiction Size: 100 x 75cm.
Sheet Size: 130 x 103cm.
Notation: Signed on sticker verso.
Number: 10/20.
Frame: Framed. Not examined out of the frame.
The work is listed on the artist's official website (www.andreasgursky.com).
Provenance:
- Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne (adhesive label)
- Bayer Inc., USA
- Bayer AG, Leverkusen (acquired from the previous owner in 2005)
Exhibitions:
- Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 2013
Literature:
- Exhib. cat. From Beckmann to Warhol, Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries - The Bayer Collection, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cologne 2013, p. 281, fig.
- Early work by the well-known Becher pupil
- Extremely clear and reduced visual language with a typical view of the effects of modernism
- Gursky represented German photography in the American part of the Bayer Collection alongside Candida Höfer and Thomas Ruff
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Explanations to the Catalogue
Andreas Gursky
Germany
Becher School
Contemporary Art
Photographs
1980s
Framed. Not examined out of the frame
Cityscape
Photography
C-print
