Live Auction 16979Post-War and Contemporary Art Afternoon Session
Andreas Gursky (b. 1955)
Lot 894 Property from an Important American Collection

Andreas Gursky (b. 1955)

May Day II

Closed16 May 2019

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Andreas Gursky (b. 1955)
May Day II
signed, titled, numbered and dated 'May Day II 6/6 '98 A Gursky' (on the reverse)
chromogenic print
73 ¾ x 88 ½ in. (187.3 x 224.8 cm.)
Executed in 1998. This work is number six from an edition of six.

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Collection of Emily and Jerry Spiegel, New York, 1999
By descent from the above to the present owner

Specialist note

"The camera's enormous distance from these figures means that they become de-individualized. So I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment." – Andreas Gursky