Hiroshi Sugimoto - Photographs New York Thursday, October 7, 2021 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Frankel Gallery, San Francisco

  • Literature

    D.A.P./Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Hiroshi Sugimoto: Architecture, p. 147
    Brougher & Elliott, Hiroshi Sugimoto, p. 199

  • 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.

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Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao

2000
Gelatin silver print.
23 x 18 1/2 in. (58.4 x 47 cm)
Signed in pencil on the mount; blindstamp number '11/25, 953' in the margin.

Estimate
$12,000 - 18,000 

Sold for $21,420

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Photographs

New York Auction 7 October 2021