Yutaka Takanashi
Toshi-e -- Towards the City. Tokyo: for the author, 1974.
Estimate: 2.200 - 2.800 GBP
Price realised: 5.250 GBP
Price realised: 5.250 GBP
Description
YUTAKA TAKANASHI
Toshi-e -- Towards the City. Tokyo: for the author, 1974.
2 volumes: folio (420 x 280 mm) and quarto (257 x 183 mm). 62 photographs, and 54 photographs. Original black cloth with metal disk mounted on the front panel, quarto volume in original black wrappers, printed paper label on cover (almost none of the usual wear on the disk; quarto vol. with a little rubbing at the corners), both volumes in the original black cardboard clamshell box, printed paper label on spine overlapping on front cover, in the original cardboard shipping box (soiling and light wear on the shipping carton).
FIRST EDITION, AN EXCELLENT COPY IN THE ORIGINAL SHIPPING BOX. Toshi-e is the 'most luxurious' and last of the Provoke books, by one of its founding members; taking as his theme the cost paid by Japan for unbridled urbanisation and consumerism, 'Takanashi addresses this complex question with lyrical passion'. Kaneko & Vartanian, Japanese Photobooks, pp.168-173; The Photobook, vol. I, p.302.
Toshi-e -- Towards the City. Tokyo: for the author, 1974.
2 volumes: folio (420 x 280 mm) and quarto (257 x 183 mm). 62 photographs, and 54 photographs. Original black cloth with metal disk mounted on the front panel, quarto volume in original black wrappers, printed paper label on cover (almost none of the usual wear on the disk; quarto vol. with a little rubbing at the corners), both volumes in the original black cardboard clamshell box, printed paper label on spine overlapping on front cover, in the original cardboard shipping box (soiling and light wear on the shipping carton).
FIRST EDITION, AN EXCELLENT COPY IN THE ORIGINAL SHIPPING BOX. Toshi-e is the 'most luxurious' and last of the Provoke books, by one of its founding members; taking as his theme the cost paid by Japan for unbridled urbanisation and consumerism, 'Takanashi addresses this complex question with lyrical passion'. Kaneko & Vartanian, Japanese Photobooks, pp.168-173; The Photobook, vol. I, p.302.
Upper estimate price exceeded by 88 %.
This artwork by Takanashi Yutaka achieved an unexpectedly high price at Christies in London in May 2010. In the Photobooks auction, the work Toshi-e -- Towards the City. Tokyo: for the author, 1974. sold for GBP 5,250.00 (€ 6,151.10) - well above the upper estimate of GBP 2,800.00. Despite this good result, it is not the highest hammer price for an artwork by Takanashi Yutaka; that achieved among the auctions we observed the lot Untitled from 'Toshi e' [Towards the City, 1968|AID724539] sold at auction in May 2008 with the realized price of GBP 6,875.00 (€ 8,745.30).
Oberer Schätzpreis um 88 % übertroffen
Dieses Kunstwerk von Takanashi Yutaka erzielte im Mai 2010 bei Christies in London einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Photobooks wurde die Arbeit Toshi-e -- Towards the City. Tokyo: for the author, 1974. für GBP 5.250,00 (€ 6.151,10) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 2.800,00. Trotz des guten Ergebnisses ist dies nicht der höchste Zuschlag für ein Kunstwerk von Takanashi Yutaka; den erzielte unter den von uns beobachteten Auktionen die Arbeit Untitled from 'Toshi e' [Towards the City, 1968|AID724539] im Mai 2008 mit dem Hammerpreis von GBP 6.875,00 (€ 8.745,30).
Takanashi Yutaka - Auction history
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