LOT DETAILS

Materials:

ferrotyped gelatin silver prints, in fifteen parts

Size Notes:

40.6 x 31.2 cm

Edition:

unique

Description:

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Markings:

(i) signed 'Bernd Becher Hilla Becher' with sequence map in pencil (verso); (i)-(xv) consecutively numbered '1-15' in pencil (verso)

Exhibited:

Essen, Museum Folkwang, Bernd & Hilla Becher - Fördertürme Chevalements Mineheads, 1985 (illustrated, pp. 204 (vii), 205 (viii), 207 (v), 208 (iv), 209 (i), 210 (xiii) and 211 (xv)). This exhibition later travelled to Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and Liège, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Liège.

Literature:

A. Zweite (ed.), Bernd & Hilla Becher: Typologies, Cambridge 2004, no. 42 (illustrated, unpaged).

Provenance:

Sonnabend Gallery, New York. Acquired from the above the by present owner in 2006.