LOT DETAILS

Materials:

ferrotyped gelatin silver prints, in fifteen parts

Size Notes:

each image: 16 x 12.25in. (40.6 x 31.2cm.) (xiii) Fosse Dourges no. 4 Hénin Liétard, Nord, F 1978

Edition:

Photographed 1967 – 1988 and printed in 2002, this work is unique and recorded with the inventory number BHB-835 (15) by Sonnabend Gallery, New York

Markings:

ferrotyped gelatin silver prints, in fifteen parts, (i) signed 'Bernd Becher Hilla Becher' with sequence map in pencil (verso);, (i)-(xv) consecutively numbered '1-15' in pencil (verso)

Exhibited:

Essen, Museum Folkwang, Bernd & Hilla Becher - Fördertürme Chevalements Mineheads, 1985 (illustrated, pp. 204 (vii), 205 (viii), 207 (v), 208 (iv), 209 (i), 210 (xiii) and 211 (xv)). This exhibition later travelled to Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and Liège, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Liège.

Literature:

A. Zweite (ed.), Bernd & Hilla Becher: Typologies, Cambridge 2004, no. 42 (illustrated, unpaged).

Provenance:

Sonnabend Gallery, New York. Acquired from the above the by present owner in 2006.