Bernd and Hilla Becher - Contemporary Art Day Sale London Friday, October 16, 2009 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Sonnabend Gallery, New York; Zeit Photo Salon, Tokyo

  • Artist Biography

    Bernd and Hilla Becher

    German • Bernd 1931-2007 - Hilla 1934-2015

    Husband 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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Krefeldn Hafen

1979
Gelatin silver print.
91.8 x 75.6 cm. (36 x 29 3/4 in).
Signed, titled, dated and numbered of five 'Krefeldn Hafen 1979 Bernd Becher Hilla Becher' on the reverse. This work is from an edition of five.

Estimate
£8,000 - 12,000 ‡♠

Sold for £11,875

Contemporary Art Day Sale

17 Oct 2009
London