Masahisa Fukase
Karasu -- Ravens. Tokyo: Sokyusha, 1986.
Estimate: 2.000 - 3.000 GBP
Price realised: 3.750 GBP
Price realised: 3.750 GBP
Description
MASAHISA FUKASE
Karasu -- Ravens. Tokyo: Sokyusha, 1986.
Square quarto (257 x 257 mm). 62 black and white photographs. Original black cloth, original glassine dust-jacket, original cardboard slipcase with printed paper label (dust-jacket chipped and creased, as often when found). Fukase's signature in paint pen on the front blank. Provenance: Japanese bookseller's ticket tipped on the inside flap.
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY FUKASE, and with the rare glassine dust-jacket. '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, original glassine dust-jacket, original cardboard slipcase with printed paper label (dust-jacket chipped and creased, as often when found). Fukase's signature in paint pen on the front blank. Provenance: Japanese bookseller's ticket tipped on the inside flap.
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY FUKASE, and with the rare glassine dust-jacket. '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 25 %.
In May 2010 Christies in London held the auction Photobooks, which included the work Karasu -- Ravens. Tokyo: Sokyusha, 1986. by Masahisa Fukase. The »bidding war« ended at GBP 3,750.00 (€ 4,393.65), 25% 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 25 % übertroffen
Im Mai 2010 führte Christies in London die Auktion Photobooks durch, in der auch die Arbeit Karasu -- Ravens. Tokyo: Sokyusha, 1986. von Masahisa Fukase zur Versteigerung kam. Das »Bietergefecht« endete beim Preis von GBP 3.750,00 (€ 4.393,65) und damit 25% 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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