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Elixir of Life: Photographs from The Olbricht Collection

Roger Ballen

Dresie and Casie, Twins, Western Transvaal

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Elixir of Life: Photographs from The Olbricht Collection

Roger Ballen

b. 1950

Dresie and Casie, Twins, Western Transvaal


gelatin silver print, signed, titled, dated and editioned '14/35' in pencil on the reverse, framed

image: 14¼ by 14¼ in. (36.2 by 36.2 cm.)

frame: 29 by 25⅝ in. (73.5 by 65 cm.)

Executed in 1993, printed in 2000.

Collection of photographer Ralph Gibson, New York (acquired directly from the artist)

Phillips de Pury & Company New York, 7 October 2005, Lot 255

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Berlin, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Go for it! Olbricht Collection (a sequel), May 2008 - October 2009

Oberstdorf, Kunsthaus Villa Jauss, Welt-er-findung: Zeitgenössische Photographie aus der Sammlung Olbricht, 2011

Roger Ballen, Platteland: Images from Rural South Africa (Johannesburg, 1994), unpaginated

Double Vie, Double Vue (Paris: Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, 1996), unpaginated

Roger Ballen, Shadow Chamber (London, 2005), p. 3

Go for it! Olbricht Collection (a sequel) (Berlin: Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, 2009), p. 117 (this print)

Ulrich Pohlmann and Christin Krause, eds., Roger Ballen, Photographs 1969–2009 (Bielefeld, 2010), p. 53

Roger Ballen, Outland (London, 2015), p. 5

Roger Ballen, Ballenesque: Roger Ballen - A Retrospective (London, 2017), p. 109