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LOT 256

TOMATSU Shomei

Hateruma Island, Okinawa

Detail

1971 printed later
Gelatin silver print
I. 28.0 × 41.3 cm (11 × 16¼ in.) S. 40.3 × 50.7 cm (15⅞ × 20 in.)
Framed

Estimate

¥800,000 - 1,400,000

$5,300 - 9,300

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Provenance: Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo

Condition: Generally in good condition. There is spotting, scuff marks in places throughout the surface, minor soiling in places on the upper margin, faint marks by paper peels and minor crease mark on lower left. The verso of the artwork is not examined since it is mounted on the mat.

Literature:
"The Pencil of the Sun, Okinawa & S.E. Asia" The Mainichi Newspapers Co., Ltd., 1975, No. 1
"What Now?! Japan through the Eyes of Shomei Tomatsu" Toeisha, 1981, P. 124
"Shomei Tomatsu: Japan 1952 - 1981" Camera Austria, cover, P. 50 and P. 84
"Islands of Time" Iwanami Shoten, cover and P. 13
"TRACES―50 years of Tomatsu's works" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1999, P. 107
"Shomei Tomatsu: Skin of the Nation" San Francisco Museum of Modern Art / Yale University Press, 2004, P. 79
"The Pencil of the Sun 1975: New Edition" Akaaka Art Publishing, Inc., 2015, No. 1