Thomas Struth - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale New York Tuesday, November 10, 2015 | Phillips

20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

New York Auction 10 November 2015 11am

  • Provenance

    Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels

  • Artist Biography

    Thomas Struth

    Thomas Struth is a German photographer best known for his large-scale, classically composed photos of museum, cityscapes, and family portraits. Struth is a prominent member of the Düsseldorf School of Photography, the group of artists who studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the mid-1970s under influential photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher. Struth’s highly centralized, balanced photos incorporate cutting-edge photographic techniques and the tenets of classical composition to develop the documentarian aims of the Bechers.

    Struth’s work has been widely celebrated by the international art community. He represented Germany at the 44th Venice Biennale in 1990 and has been the subject of major retrospectives including those at the Dallas Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Haus der Kunst, Munich. He lives and works in Berlin and New York.

     
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Thomas Struth

The Ma family Shanghai

1996
cibachrome print
47 1/4 x 54 3/8 in. (120 x 138 cm)
Signed in pencil, printed title, date and number 2/10 on an artist's label affixed to the reverse of the frame. This work is number 2 from an edition of 10.

Estimate
$10,000 - 15,000 

Sold for $12,500

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

New York Auction 10 November 2015 11am