Wim Wenders - ULTIMATE Evening & Photographs Day Sales London Thursday, May 17, 2018 | Phillips

ULTIMATE Evening & Photographs Day Sales

London Auction 18 May 2018

  • Provenance

    Haunch of Venison, London, 2006

  • Exhibited

    Camera Sacra: Capturing the Soul of Nature, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 21 April – 3 December 2005, another

  • Literature

    Wim Wenders: Pictures from the Surface of the Earth, Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2003, pl. 38

  • Catalogue Essay

    ‘You can never really own a place.
    Even the camera can’t.
    And if we take its pictures,
    we’re only borrowing the place’s appearance
    for a little while,
    nothing but its outer skin, its surface.’

    Wim Wenders, Pictures from the Surface of the Earth

Michel and Sally Strauss Contemporary Photography Collection

38

Wim Wenders

The Road to Emmaus, near Jerusalem

2000
Mural-sized chromogenic print, face-mounted.
Image: 134.5 x 407.9 cm (52 7/8 x 160 5/8 in.)
Frame: 182.7 x 452.8 cm (71 7/8 x 178 1/4 in.)
Signed in ink, printed title, date and number 2/6 on a gallery label affixed to the reverse of the frame.

Estimate
£10,000 - 15,000 ♠

Sold for £32,500

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ULTIMATE Evening & Photographs Day Sales

London Auction 18 May 2018