Thomas Struth - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Thursday, October 12, 2023 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Waddington Galleries, London
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    Lyon, Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, Une histoire de famille: collection(s) Robellin, 20 April - 7 July 2022 (another example exhibited)

  • 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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Grab von Lu Xun Shanghai, 1997

signed, titled, numbered and dated ''Grab von Lu Xun Shanghai 1997 3/10 Thomas Struth print: 1997' on the reverse; signed 'Thomas Struth' on a label affixed to the backboard
c-print, face-mounted to Plexiglas, in artist's frame
180.9 x 218.2 cm (71 1/4 x 85 7/8 in.)
Executed in 1997, this work is number 3 from an edition of 10.

Estimate
£15,000 - 20,000 

Sold for £19,050

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 12 October 2023