Thomas Struth - Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Friday, March 7, 2025 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Max Hetzler Gallery, Berlin
    Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2002

  • Exhibited

    New York, Marian Goodman Gallery, Thomas Struth, 30 April-15 June 2002 (another example exhibited)
    Milan, Monica de Cardenas, Thomas Struth, 15 January-28 February 2003 (another example exhibited)
    Athens, Museum of Cycladic Art, Thomas Struth, 16 June-14 September 2009 (another example exhibited)
    Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof, Thomas Struth - Pergamon Museum 1-6, 31 March-1 August 2004, n.p. (another example exhibited and illustrated)

  • Literature

    Tobia Bezzola, Sandra Haldi, Dorothee Jansen, Anette Kruszynski and Lisa Marei Schmidt, eds., Thomas Struth: Photographs 1978-2010, exh. cat., Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich; Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, 2010, p. 211 (another example illustrated)
    Alias Domenica, 'Museo, raccontare storie per fare comunità', il manifesto, 29 April 2018, online (another example illustrated)
    Silvia Hernando, 'El Museo como obra de arte', EL PAÍS, 18 May 2012, online (another example illustrated)

  • 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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Property of a Distinguished Private Collection

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Pergamon Museum III, Berlin

signed 'Thomas Struth' on a label affixed to the reverse of the backing board
c-print face-mounted to Plexiglas, in artist's frame
image: 171.3 x 212.1 cm (67 1/2 x 83 1/2 in.)
overall: 186 x 226.4 cm (73 1/4 x 89 1/8 in.)

Executed in 2001, this work is number 6 from an edition of 10.

Estimate
£60,000 - 80,000 ‡♠

Sold for £69,850

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Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 7 March 2025