Ikkō Narahara
Shadow of car driving through desert, Arizona from Where Time Has Vanished
Estimate: 10.000 - 15.000 GBP
Price realised: 27.940 GBP
Price realised: 27.940 GBP
Description
1971
Gelatin silver print, printed 1973.
Image: 32.8 x 49.4 cm (12 7/8 x 19 1/2 in.)
Sheet: 40 x 50.2 cm (15 3/4 x 19 3/4 in.)
Signed by the artist, dated and annotated ‘Printed by Ikko in NYC, March, 73’ by Keiko Narahara, the artist’s widow, all in pencil on the verso.
This work is a rare, early print made by the artist while based in New York (1970-74). Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris; Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris; George Eastman House, Rochester; Tokyo Photographic Art Museum and Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg each holds a smaller, later print of this image.
Gelatin silver print, printed 1973.
Image: 32.8 x 49.4 cm (12 7/8 x 19 1/2 in.)
Sheet: 40 x 50.2 cm (15 3/4 x 19 3/4 in.)
Signed by the artist, dated and annotated ‘Printed by Ikko in NYC, March, 73’ by Keiko Narahara, the artist’s widow, all in pencil on the verso.
This work is a rare, early print made by the artist while based in New York (1970-74). Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris; Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris; George Eastman House, Rochester; Tokyo Photographic Art Museum and Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg each holds a smaller, later print of this image.
A top price for Ikko Narahara
This artwork by Ikko Narahara achieved an unexpectedly high price at Phillips in London in November this year. In the Photographs auction, the work Shadow of car driving through desert, Arizona from Where Time Has Vanished sold for GBP 27,940.00 (€ 32,376.38) - well above the upper estimate of GBP 15,000.00. This high result makes Shadow of car driving through desert, Arizona from Where Time Has Vanished the most expensive artwork by Ikko Narahara that we have observed at auctions so far.
Ein Spitzenpreis für Ikko Narahara
Dieses Kunstwerk von Ikko Narahara erzielte im November diesen Jahres bei Phillips in London einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Photographs wurde die Arbeit Shadow of car driving through desert, Arizona from Where Time Has Vanished für GBP 27.940,00 (€ 32.376,38) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 15.000,00. Dieses hohe Ergebnis macht Shadow of car driving through desert, Arizona from Where Time Has Vanished zu dem teuersten Kunstwerk von Ikko Narahara, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.
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