Live Auction 18977Post-War & Contemporary Art Day Sale
Hiroshi Sugimoto (b. 1948)
Lot 176

Hiroshi Sugimoto (b. 1948)

North Atlantic Ocean, Cape Breton Island

Closed7 October 2020

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USD 500,000

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Hiroshi Sugimoto (b. 1948)
North Atlantic Ocean, Cape Breton Island
signed 'Sugimoto' (on a paper label affixed to the reverse of the frame)
gelatin silver print flush-mounted on board
sheet/flush mount: 47 x 58 ¾ in. (119.4 x 149.2 cm.)
Executed in 1996. This work is number three from an edition of five.

The Pace Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2010

Specialist note


Water and air. So very commonplace are these substances, they hardly attract attention―and yet they vouchsafe our very existence. ...Mystery of mysteries, water and air are right there before us in the sea. Every time I view the sea, I feel a calming sense of security, as if visiting my ancestral home; I embark on a voyage of seeing.
—Hiroshi Sugimoto