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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 2019 | May Day I | 5 | Christie's | London | |||
| Dec 8, 1999 | May Day I | Christie's | London | ||||
photographs
145.1 x 186.4 cm (57.13 x 73.38 in)
colour coupler print, in artist's frame
signed, titled, numbered and dated 'May Day '97 5/6 A. Gursky' in ink on affixed white paper label (frame backing board)
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris.
Private Collection, Europe.
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 8 December 1999, lot 28.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Düsseldorf, Kunsthalle, Andreas Gursky: Photographs from 1984 to the Present, 1998, p. 18 (another from the edition exhibited; illustrated in colour, p. 31).
Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum, Andreas Gursky. Fotografien 1994 – 1998, 1998 – 1999 (another from the edition exhibited; illustrated in colour, p. 57). This exhibition later travelled to Winterthur, Fotomuseum; London, Serpentine Gallery; Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art; Turin, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporaneo and Lisbon, Centro Cultural de Belém.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Andreas Gursky, 2001, p. 185, no. 38 (another from the edition exhibited; illustrated in colour, p. 135).
Krefeld, Kunstmuseum Krefeld, Andreas Gursky. Werke. Works 80-08, 2008 – 2009, p. 252 (another edition exhibited; illustrated in colour, p. 154). This exhibition later travelled to Stockholm, Moderna Museet and Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery.
Noema Art Magazine, no. 49, October/November 1998 (illustrated, p. 100).
Kunstforum, no. 145, May – June 1999 (illustrated, p. 264).
Der Spiegel, August 2001 (illustrated, p. 181).
Andreas Gursky. Architecture, exh. cat., Darmstadt, Institut Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, 2008, fig. 12 (illustrated in colour, p. 30).
this work is number five from an edition of six
