Gelatin silver print, printed 1973.

1972

Image: 33 x 49 cm (12 7/8 x 19 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 40 x 50.1 cm (15 3/4 x 19 3/4 in.)

Signed, annotated 'AP.1. IKKO' by the artist and 'Printed by IKKO, in NYC, Oct, 73' by Keiko Narahara, the artist's widow, all in pencil on the verso.

This work is a rare, early print made by the artist while based in New York (1970-74). The Museum of Modern Art, New York, holds a similar-sized print of this image, which was included in their 1974 landmark exhibition New Japanese Photography. This is the first auction offering of an early print of Two Garbage Cans, arguably Ikko’s most famous image.