Shomei Tomatsu
OO! Shinjuku. Tokyo: Shaken, 1969.
Estimate: 1.500 - 2.000 GBP
Price realised: 2.000 GBP
Price realised: 2.000 GBP
Description
SHOMEI TOMATSU
OO! Shinjuku. Tokyo: Shaken, 1969.
Oblong quarto (260 x 188mm). 120 black and white photographs. Original photo-illustrated wrappers (light wear at extremities, light soiling).
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY TOMATSU, and with the publisher's printed inserts laid-in. 'A radical... eminently serious, even despairing book'; 'a historical document as well as a photobook of invention and heart' (The Photobook). De Beaupré, Japon, p.12; The Photobook, p.290.
OO! Shinjuku. Tokyo: Shaken, 1969.
Oblong quarto (260 x 188mm). 120 black and white photographs. Original photo-illustrated wrappers (light wear at extremities, light soiling).
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY TOMATSU, and with the publisher's printed inserts laid-in. 'A radical... eminently serious, even despairing book'; 'a historical document as well as a photobook of invention and heart' (The Photobook). De Beaupré, Japon, p.12; The Photobook, p.290.
Sold at the upper estimate price
The work OO! Shinjuku. Tokyo: Shaken, 1969. by Shomei Tomatsu was sold in the Photobooks auction at Christies in London in May 2010. The auction ended at the price of GBP 2,000.00 (€ 2,343.28), which exactly corresponded to the upper end of the estimated price range of GBP 1,500.00 – 2,000.00. Of course, this price has nothing to do with the top prices that other works by Shomei Tomatsu achieve. The highest price we have observed so far was reached by the work Untitled (series 'Chewing Gum and Chocolate, Yokosuka'), 1958 in November last year with an auction result of EUR 37,800.00.
Zuschlag beim oberen Schätzpreis
Die Arbeit OO! Shinjuku. Tokyo: Shaken, 1969. von Shomei Tomatsu wurde im Mai 2010 in der Auktion Photobooks bei Christies in London versteigert. Das dabei erzielte Ergebnis von GBP 2.000,00 (€ 2.343,28) entsprach exakt dem oberen Ende der Schätzpreisspanne von GBP 1.500,00 – 2.000,00. Dieser Preis hat freilich nichts mit den Spitzenpreisen zu tun, die andere Arbeiten von Shomei Tomatsu erzielen. Den höchsten von uns bisher beobachteten Preis erreichte die Arbeit Untitled (series 'Chewing Gum and Chocolate, Yokosuka'), 1958 im November letzten Jahres mit einem Auktionsergebnis von EUR 37.800,00.
Shomei Tomatsu - Auction history
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