Andreas Gursky - Art for One Drop New York Friday, September 21, 2018 | Phillips

Art for One Drop

New York Charity Auction 21 September 2018

  • Provenance

    Courtesy of the Artist and Sprüth Magers

  • Exhibited

    Dusseldorf, Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Andreas Gursky, September 29, 2012 - February 3, 2013, pp. 27-28 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
    Tokyo, The National Art Center; Osaka, The National Museum of Art, Andreas Gursky, July 3, 2013 - May 11, 2014, no. 63, pp. 134-135 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
    Water Mill, Parrish Art Museum, Andreas Gursky: Landscapes, August 2 - October 18, 2015, pp. 50-51 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 51)
    Rome, Gagosian Gallery, Andreas Gursky: Bangkok, December 14, 2017 - March 10, 2018 (another example exhibited)

  • Catalogue Essay

    Photographer Andreas Gursky was born in Leipzig and completed his formal training at the Kunstakademie, Dusseldorf, studying under Bernd and Hilla Becher. His large-format photographs capture the minutiae of modern-day experience and include a diverse range of global subjects, including the usage of resources, as shown here in the image of the Chao Phraya River, through whose mirror-like water surface the waste of the city of Bangkok becomes visible. His seductive images, which navigate a space between painting and photography, reject the notion of photographic truth and involve intense digital manipulation to achieve their dizzying details, rich color relationships, and sublime scale.

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Andreas Gursky

Bangkok IX

signed, titled, numbered and dated on the reverse; further signed, titled, numbered and dated on a label affixed to the reverse of the backing board
inkjet print, in artist's frame
120 7/8 x 87 in. (307 x 221 cm.)
Executed in 2011, this work is number 1 from an edition of 6.

Estimate
$250,000 - 350,000 

Sold for $275,000

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Art for One Drop

New York Charity Auction 21 September 2018