Lot 64
- 64
Bernd & Hilla Becher
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
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Description
- Bernd and Hilla Becher
- Blast Furnace Heads C
- top left image: signed and titled on the reverse; each: numbered on the reverse
- nine gelatin silver prints mounted on cardboard
- each (image): 40.2 by 30.6cm.; (framed): 56.4 by 46.2cm.; overall: 174 by 140cm
- (image): 15 3/4 by 12in.; (framed): 22 1/4 by 18 1/8 in.; overall: 68 1/2 by 55 1/8 in.
- Executed in 1989.
Provenance
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Acquired dire🦂ctly from the above by the present owner
Literature
Venice, XLIV Biennale Internazionale dell'Arte, 1990, p. 205, other examples illustrated as part of a different typology
Bernd & Hilla Becher, Blast Furnaces, Massachussets 1991, n/p., various illustrations of single images; also pls. 67, 71, 73
Bernd & Hilla Becher, Typologies, Schirmer/Mosel, Munich 1999, n/p., other examples illustrated as part of a different typology
Armin Zweite, ed., Bernd & Hilla Becher, Typologies, Munich, 2005, pl. 94, other examples illustrated as part of a different typology
Bernd & Hilla Becher, Blast Furnaces, Massachussets 1991, n/p., various illustrations of single images; also pls. 67, 71, 73
Bernd & Hilla Becher, Typologies, Schirmer/Mosel, Munich 1999, n/p., other examples illustrated as part of a different typology
Armin Zweite, ed., Bernd & Hilla Becher, Typologies, Munich, 2005, pl. 94, other examples illustrated as part of a different typology
Catalogue Note
left to right, top to bottom:
no title
Herrenwyk, Lübeck D
Duisberg-Bruchhausen, Germany
Völkingen, Saarland
Esch-Alzette, Terre Rouge L.
Rombad, Lorraine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA
Johnstown, Pennsylvania USA
no title
Herrenwyk, Lübeck D
Duisberg-Bruchhausen, Germany
Völkingen, Saarland
Esch-Alzette, Terre Rouge L.
Rombad, Lorraine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA
Johnstown, Pennsylvania USA