Masahisa Fukase
Karasu -- Ravens. Tokyo: Sokyusha, 1986.
Estimate: 2.000 - 3.000 GBP
Price realised: 4.375 GBP
Price realised: 4.375 GBP
Description
MASAHISA FUKASE
Karasu -- Ravens. Tokyo: Sokyusha, 1986.
Square quarto (257 x 257 mm). 62 black and white photographs. Original black cloth, covers and spine blind-stamped, original glassine dust jacket, original cardboard slipcase with printed paper label (light wear on dust-jacket and slipcase). Provenance: Masahisa Fukase ( inscription in white pen on the front blank, to:) -- 'Mr Kadoma'.
FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY FUKASE. COMPLETE WITH THE GLASSINE DUST-JACKET, AND A PRINTED SHEET OF CAPTIONS LAID-IN. 'The post-provoke masterpiece of Japanese photobooks... a technical as well as an aesthetic tour-de-force... its strength is that it works on so many levels -- graphically, descriptively, technically, metaphorically. The imagery is beautiful, surprising, haunting, but ultimately it is Fukase's masterly handling of the narrative and rhythm that makes it so memorable'. The Photobook, vol. I, p.306.
Karasu -- Ravens. Tokyo: Sokyusha, 1986.
Square quarto (257 x 257 mm). 62 black and white photographs. Original black cloth, covers and spine blind-stamped, original glassine dust jacket, original cardboard slipcase with printed paper label (light wear on dust-jacket and slipcase). Provenance: Masahisa Fukase ( inscription in white pen on the front blank, to:) -- 'Mr Kadoma'.
FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY FUKASE. COMPLETE WITH THE GLASSINE DUST-JACKET, AND A PRINTED SHEET OF CAPTIONS LAID-IN. 'The post-provoke masterpiece of Japanese photobooks... a technical as well as an aesthetic tour-de-force... its strength is that it works on so many levels -- graphically, descriptively, technically, metaphorically. The imagery is beautiful, surprising, haunting, but ultimately it is Fukase's masterly handling of the narrative and rhythm that makes it so memorable'. The Photobook, vol. I, p.306.
Upper estimate price exceeded by 46 %.
The work Karasu -- Ravens. Tokyo: Sokyusha, 1986. by Masahisa Fukase was sold in the Photobooks auction at Christies in London in May 2009. The »bidding war« ended at GBP 4,375.00 (€ 5,004.96), 46% above the upper estimate. Of course, this price has nothing to do with the top prices that other works by Masahisa Fukase achieve. The highest price we have observed so far was reached by the work Cape Erimo from Ravens in May 2016 with an auction result of GBP 93,750.00 (€ 122,333.86).
Oberer Schätzpreis um 46 % übertroffen
Die Arbeit Karasu -- Ravens. Tokyo: Sokyusha, 1986. von Masahisa Fukase wurde im Mai 2009 in der Auktion Photobooks bei Christies in London versteigert. Das »Bietergefecht« endete beim Preis von GBP 4.375,00 (€ 5.004,96) und damit 46% über dem oberen Schätzpreis. Dieser Preis hat freilich nichts mit den Spitzenpreisen zu tun, die andere Arbeiten von Masahisa Fukase erzielen. Den höchsten von uns bisher beobachteten Preis erreichte die Arbeit Cape Erimo from Ravens im Mai 2016 mit einem Auktionsergebnis von GBP 93.750,00 (€ 122.333,86).
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