Live Auction 8647Post-War and Contemporary Art
Andreas Gursky (B. 1955)
Lot 203

Andreas Gursky (B. 1955)

Zoobrücke, Köln

Closed17 April 2013

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GBP 25,000

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Andreas Gursky (B. 1955)
Zoobrücke, Köln
signed, titled, numbered and dated 'Zoobrücke 88 9/12 A. Gursky' (on the reverse)
chromogenic print face-mounted to Plexiglas
image: 45¼ x 34½in. (115 x 88cm.)
sheet: 58¼ x 47¼in. (148 x 120cm.)
Executed in 1988, this work is number nine from an edition of twelve

Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1999.

Specialist note

'I wasn't interested in an unusal, possibly picturesque view of the Rhine, but in the most contemporary possible view of it'

(A. Gursky, quoted in L. Cooke, 'Andreas Gursky: Vision (Per)Versions, M. L. Syring (ed.), Andreas Gursky: Photographs from 1984 to the present, exh. cat., Dusseldorf, Kunsthaus Düsseldorf, 1998, p. 13).