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Bernd and Hilla Becher
Gasbehälter (Gas Tanks), image VII, from Typologies series
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- £2,000 - 3,000♠
£7,500
Lot Details
Digital pigment print (Ditone), on Hahnemühle Baryta paper, with full margins.
2008
I. 70 x 93 cm (27 1/2 x 36 5/8 in.)
S. 90.1 x 112 cm (35 1/2 x 44 1/8 in.)
S. 90.1 x 112 cm (35 1/2 x 44 1/8 in.)
Signed 'B + H Becher' by Hilla Becher and annotated 'AC' in pencil on the reverse (an 'archive copy', the edition was 40 plus 10 in Roman numerals and 8 artist's proofs), published by Edition Schellmann, Munich and New York, framed.
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Bernd and Hilla Becher
GermanHusband and wife Bernd and Hilla Becher began photographing buildings and relics of the Industrial Revolution, such as coal mines and cooling towers, in 1959. Like objective scientists removing a specimen from the field, the Bechers framed their subject in a manner that isolated it from its environment. Often, these stark, beautifully detailed prints were then displayed in grid-like structures, forming stunning 'Typologies'.By the time Bernd Becher became a professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1976 (policy would not allow Hilla to be a simultaneous appointment), the Bechers' photographs, with their seemingly neutral point of view and serial display, were already being applauded by the international art world as important works of Minimal and Conceptual Art.
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