Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner

Condition: The colour in the catalogue illustration is fairly accurate although the overall tonality is deeper and richer in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition.
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"Can someone today view a scene just as primitive man might have?... Although the land is forever changing its form, the sea, I thought, is immutable. Thus began my travels back through time to the ancient seas of the world."

Hiroshi Sugimoto quoted in: Exhibition Catalogue, Tokyo, Mori Art Museum, Hiroshi Sugimoto, 2005, p. 109.