Bernd and Hilla Becher
Wasserturm
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October 23, 06:17 PM GMT
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25,000 - 35,000 USD
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20,000 USD
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Bernd and Hilla Becher
1931 - 2007 and 1934 - 2015
Wasserturm
a triptych of ferrotyped gelatin silver prints, each mounted, signed and inscribed 'For Carol and David with love from Bernd and Hilla' in pencil on the reverse of the mount of the third print in the sequence, each framed, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York, labels on the reverse
images: 15⅞ by 11⅞ in. (40.3 by 30.2 cm.)
frames: 20¼ by 16¼ in. (51.4 by 41.3 cm.)
Executed in 1978, this work is unique.
Gift of the photographers in 1981 to the present owner
New York City, Broadway/Houston St., USA 1978 and New York City, Crosby/Houston St. USA 1978:
Bernd und Hilla Becher (Eindhoven, 1981), p. 49
Bernd & Hilla Becher, Water Towers (Cambridge, 1988), pl. 51 (New York City, Crosby/Houston St. USA 1978 only)
Virginia Ann Heckert, A Photographic Archive of Industrial Architecture: The work of Bernd and Hilla Becher (Santa Barbara, 1987), p 118
Bernd & Hilla Becher, Typologies (Cambridge, 2004), pl. 4
Susanne Lange, Bernd & Hilla Becher: Life Work (Cambridge, 2007), fig. 70, p. 41
Gainfranco Maraniello, ed., Bernd & Hilla Becher at Museo Morandi (Bologna, 2009), p. 37
The center and right images have been identified as New York City, Broadway/Houston St., USA 1978 and New York City, Crosby/Houston St. USA 1978, respectively (Bernd & Hilla Becher at Museo Morandi, Bologna, 2009).
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