Live Auction 11796Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO (B. 1948)
Lot 200

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO (B. 1948)

Lightning Fields 144

Closed12 February 2016

Price Realised

GBP 134,500

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HIROSHI SUGIMOTO (B. 1948)
Lightning Fields 144
signed 'Sugimoto' (on a label affixed to the reverse)
gelatin silver print in artist's frame
71 7/8 x 60in. (182.5 x 152.5cm.)
Executed in 2010, this work is number four from an edition of five

Private Collection, Tokyo.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

‘I see the spark of life itself, the lightning that struck the primordial ooze’

(H. Sugimoto, quoted in Hiroshi Sugimoto: Lightning Fields, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, September, 2009)