Hiroshi Sugimoto - New Now New York Tuesday, September 19, 2017 | Phillips

Create your first list.

Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.

  • Provenance

    Coskun Fine Art, London
    Christie's, London, June 21, 2007, lot 527
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Literature

    Sugimoto: Architecture, exh. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2003, p. 31 (another example illustrated)

  • Artist Biography

    Hiroshi Sugimoto

    Japanese • 1948

    Hiroshi Sugimoto's work examines the concepts of time, space and the metaphysics of human existence through breathtakingly perfect images of theaters, mathematical forms, wax figures and seascapes. His 8 x 10 inch, large-format camera and long exposures give an almost eerie serenity to his images, treating the photograph as an ethereal time capsule and challenging its associations of the 'instant.' 

    In his famed Seascapes, Sugimoto sublimely captures the nature of water and air, sharpening and blurring the elements together into a seamless, formless entity.  This reflection of the human condition and its relationship with time follows through his exploration of historical topics and timeless beauty as he uniquely replicates the world around us.

    View More Works

251

Austrian Post Office Savings Bank

signed "Sugimoto" and blindstamped with number "14/25 975" lower right
gelatin silver print
24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm.)
Executed in 2001, this work is number 14 from an edition of 25.

Estimate
$10,000 - 15,000 

Contact Specialist
Rebekah Bowling
Head of Sale
New York
+ 1 212 940 1250

New Now

New York Auction 19 September 2017