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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 4, 2017 | Christie's | London | Masterpieces of Design & Photography | 7 | $****** - ****** | May Day IV | |||
May 10, 2005 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art - Evening | 3 | $****** - ****** | May Day IV |
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152.7 x 457.2 cm (60.13 x 180 in)
chromogenic colour print face-mounted to Plexiglas in artist’s frame
signed, titled, numbered and dated 'May day IV 2000 2/6 A. Gursky' (verso)
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2002.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Andreas Gursky, 2001-2002, p. 185, no. 59 (another example from the edition exhibited; illustrated in colour, pp. 182-183; details illustrated in colour, pp. 76-77 and on the front and back covers). This exhibition later travelled to Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Paris, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou (another
example from the edition exhibited; illustrated in colour, pp. 52-53) and Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
Liverpool, Tate Liverpool, Remix: Contemporary Art and Pop, 2002 (another example from the edition exhibited; illustrated in colour, p. 59).
Barcelona, Museu d’Història de Barcelona, The Human Condition, 2004 (another example from the edition exhibited; illustrated in colour, pp. 170-171).
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Andreas Gursky, 2007 (another example from the edition exhibited). This exhibition later travelled to Istanbul, Museum of Modern Art (another example from the edition exhibited; illustrated in colour, pp. 50-51) and Sharjah, Sharjah Art Museum.
London, Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Andreas Gursky, 2007, p. 142 (another example from the edition exhibited; illustrated in colour, pp. 50-51). This exhibition later travelled to London, White Cube and New York, Matthew Marks.
Darmstadt, Institut Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, Andreas Gursky. Architecture, 2008, no. 15 (another example from the edition exhibited; illustrated in colour, p. 13).
R. Burbridge, ‘The Beauty and the Power’, in Creative Review, April 2001 (another example from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 82).
Andreas Gursky, exh. cat., Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel, 2007, fig. 21 (another example from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 84).
this work is number two from an edition of six
Other examples from the edition are in the collection of the Kunstmuseum NRW, Dusseldorf; Kistefos Museet, Oslo and Castello di Rivoli, Turin.
