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Property from the Collection of John Kaldor

Bernd and Hilla Becher

Winding Tower Heads

VAT reduced rateArtist's Resale RightUK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Bernd and Hilla Becher

1931 - 2007 and 1934- 2015


Winding Tower Heads

signed and sequentially numbered 1-15 and the first annotated with a sequence map in pencil (on the reverse of the mounts)

gelatin silver prints, each mounted, in fifteen parts

each: 40.3 by 30.8 cm. 15⅞ by 12⅛ in.

each, framed: 55.5 by 45.5 cm. 21⅞ by 17⅞ in.

Executed in 1967-72, printed in 1997, this work is unique.

Sonnabend Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in 1997 by the present owner

Bernd and Hilla Becher, Typologies, Munich 1990, illustration of another example on the cover; and n.p., illustration of another example

Armin Zweite, Ed., Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies, Cambridge 2004, no. 41, n.p., illustration of another example