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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 6, 2020 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Curated | 262 | $****** - ****** | WATCHTOWERS | |||
Nov 15, 2019 | Christie's | New York | Post-War and Contemporary Art Afternoon Session | 897 | $****** - ****** | New York Water Towers | |||
Oct 25, 2019 | Phillips | New York | Editions & Works on Paper | 369 | $****** - ****** | Trier-Ehrang, from Wassertürme | |||
Oct 18, 2019 | Wright | Chicago | Art + Design | 350 | $****** - ****** | Sechs Doppelwassertürme (Six Double Water Towers) portfolio | |||
Oct 5, 2019 | Christie's | London | Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction | 238 | $****** - ****** | Wassertürme (Water Towers) | |||
Jun 26, 2019 | Christie's | London | Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction | 128 | $****** - ****** | New York Water Towers | |||
Apr 4, 2019 | Phillips | New York | Photographs | 205 | $****** - ****** | Water Towers, 1968-1984 | |||
Apr 4, 2019 | Phillips | New York | Photographs | 206 | $****** - ****** | Cooling Tower, Steelplant, Eisenhüttenstadt, East Germany | |||
Mar 2, 2018 | Christie's | New York | Post-War and Contemporary Art | 367 | $****** - ****** | Water Tower, 548 West 22nd Street, New York, U.S.A. | |||
Nov 10, 2017 | Sotheby's | Paris | Photographies | 166 | $****** - ****** | WATER TOWER TYPOLOGY | |||
May 31, 2017 | Lempertz | Cologne | Photography | 195 | $****** - ****** | Sechs Wassertürme | |||
Mar 8, 2017 | Phillips | London | 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale | 10 | $****** - ****** | Water Towers | |||
Dec 3, 2016 | Kunsthaus Lempertz | Cologne | Zeitgenössische Kunst | 568 | $****** - ****** | Bochum | |||
Nov 18, 2016 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Day Auction | 503 | $****** - ****** | NINE WATER TOWERS | |||
Jun 9, 2016 | Karl & Faber | Munich | Kunst nach 1945 / Zeitgenössische Kunst | 1036 | $****** - ****** | Wasserturm Verviers Belgien | |||
Dec 4, 2015 | Jeschke van Vliet | Berlin | Alte und Moderne Kunst, Moderne Photographie, Antiquitäten | 477 | $****** - ****** | Wassertrum Duisburg-Meiderich | |||
Nov 25, 2015 | Van Ham | Cologne | Moderne Kunst, Zeitgenössische Kunst, Discoveries | 669 | $****** - ****** | Wasserturm bei Bruay, Nordfrankreich | |||
Oct 17, 2015 | Christie's | London | Post War & Contemporary Art Day Auction | 286 | $****** - ****** | Typology of Four: 'Water Towers' | |||
Jun 13, 2015 | Jeschke van Vliet | Berlin | Kunst- und Antiquitäten | 463 | $****** - ****** | Wasserturm Duisburg-Meiderich | |||
May 13, 2015 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Day Auction | 573 | $****** - ****** | Water Tower, Crailsheim, Germany, 1980 | |||
Mar 21, 2015 | Venator & Hanstein | Cologne | Moderne und Zeitgenössische Graphik, Moderne Illustrierte Bücher | 777 | $****** - ****** | Wasserturme | |||
Nov 26, 2014 | Villa Grisebach Auktionen | Berlin | Moderne und Zeitgenössische Photographie | 2197 | $****** - ****** | Gasbehälter, Wuppertal | |||
Oct 17, 2014 | Swann Galleries | New York | Fine Photographs: Icons & Images | 273 | $****** - ****** | [Untitled] | |||
Sep 27, 2014 | Venator & Hanstein | Cologne | Moderne und Zeitgenossische Graphik, Moderne Kunstliteratur | 900 | $****** - ****** | Wassertürme | |||
Jun 14, 2014 | Hauswedell & Nolte | Hamburg | Kunst nach '45 | 829 | $****** - ****** | Vier Wassertürme | |||
Mar 29, 2014 | Venator & Hanstein | Cologne | Moderne und Zeitgenössische Graphik, Moderne Kunstliteratur | 830 | $****** - ****** | Wassertürme | |||
Feb 14, 2014 | Christie's | London | Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction | 185 | $****** - ****** | Wassertürme (Water Towers) | |||
Feb 13, 2014 | Sotheby's | London | Contemporary Art Day Auction | 392 | $****** - ****** | Watertowers- K | |||
Dec 14, 2013 | Jeschke van Vliet | Berlin | Alte und Moderne Kunst - Antiquitäten | 44 | $****** - ****** | Wasserturm Duisburg-Meiderich | |||
Dec 14, 2013 | Jeschke van Vliet | Berlin | Alte und Moderne Kunst - Antiquitäten | 45 | $****** - ****** | Wasserturm Greencastle Pennsylvania USA | |||
Dec 5, 2013 | Bloomsbury Auctions | London | Modern & Contemporary British Art | 84 | $****** - ****** | Wasserturm, Kirkhamgate Leeds | |||
Nov 27, 2013 | Villa Grisebach Auktionen | Berlin | Klassische und Zeitgenössische Photographie | 2142 | $****** - ****** | Wassertürme | |||
Nov 15, 2013 | Sotheby's | Paris | Photographies | 96 | $****** - ****** | Châteaux D'eau | |||
Dec 7, 2012 | Van Ham | Cologne | Photographie | 1013 | $****** - ****** | Wasserturm | |||
Dec 1, 2012 | Kunsthaus Lempertz | Cologne | Zeitgenössische Kunst | 513 | $****** - ****** | Spherical Gas Tank, Wesseling, Near Cologne, Germany | |||
Oct 4, 2012 | Christie's | New York | Photographs | 318 | $****** - ****** | Water Tower, Dole, Jura, France, F | |||
Oct 4, 2012 | Christie's | New York | Photographs | 319 | $****** - ****** | Water Tower, Trier-Ehrang, D, Version II | |||
Oct 2, 2012 | Phillips | New York | Photographs | 256 | $****** - ****** | Water tower, Leipzig | |||
Sep 21, 2012 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art | 110 | $****** - ****** | Water Tower, Trier-ehrang, Germany; Water Tower, Bischofsheim, Mainz, Germany | |||
May 31, 2012 | Artcurial | Paris | Art Contemporain II | 445 | $****** - ****** | Spherical gas tank, Wesserling, near Cologne, Germany | |||
May 23, 2012 | Kunsthaus Lempertz | Cologne | Zeitgenössische Kunst | 518 | $****** - ****** | Gasbehälter bei Wuppertal | |||
Apr 3, 2012 | Sotheby's | New York | Photographs | 180 | $****** - ****** | Watertower, Recklinghausen, Ruhr, ca. 1910 | |||
Nov 16, 2011 | Christie's | London | From Milan to Rome - The Collections of Two Italian Designers | 166 | $****** - ****** | Water tower; Waterloo, Belgium | |||
Nov 16, 2011 | Christie's | London | From Milan to Rome - The Collections of Two Italian Designers | 169 | $****** - ****** | Water tower; Stuttgart | |||
Oct 19, 2011 | Bonhams | Knightsbridge | Contemporary Two | 241 | $****** - ****** | Water Tower, Essen Byfang, D 1980 | |||
Sep 14, 2011 | Christie's | South Kensington | Post-War & Contemporary Art | 4 | $****** - ****** | Wassertürme (Duisburg) (Water Tower (Duisburg)) | |||
Apr 7, 2011 | Christie's | New York | Crossing America: Photographs from the Consolidated Freightways Collection, Part I | 232 | $****** - ****** | Water Tower, Findlay, Ohio | |||
Apr 7, 2011 | Christie's | New York | Crossing America: Photographs from the Consolidated Freightways Collection, Part I | 233 | $****** - ****** | Circle City, NJ | |||
Apr 7, 2011 | Christie's | New York | Crossing America: Photographs from the Consolidated Freightways Collection, Part I | 234 | $****** - ****** | Toledo, Ohio, USA | |||
Dec 14, 2010 | Sotheby's | New York | Fusion: Contemporary Art and Design | 64 | $****** - ****** | Maisoncelles, Seine-marne, France | |||
Apr 13, 2010 | Sotheby's | New York | Photographs | 215 | $****** - ****** | Spherical Gastanks | |||
Nov 25, 2009 | Sotheby's | Milan | Contemporary Art | 176 | $****** - ****** | Wasserturme | |||
Nov 14, 2009 | Phillips | New York | Photographs | 180 | $****** - ****** | Wasserturme | |||
May 28, 2009 | Kunsthaus Lempertz | Cologne | Zeitgenoessische Kunst | 313 | $****** - ****** | Gasbehalter, Grube 'Anna' bei Aachen | |||
Dec 5, 2008 | Van Ham | Cologne | Photographie | 1054 | $****** - ****** | Indistriebauten | |||
Oct 18, 2008 | Phillips | London | Contemporary Art Part II | 274 | $****** - ****** | Water Tower New York, Broadway/Broom Street | |||
Oct 13, 2008 | Christie's | New York | Contemporary Photographs | 28 | $****** - ****** | Water Tower, Carmaux, France | |||
Jun 29, 2008 | Phillips | London | Photographs - The Collection of Lewis Kaplan | 21 | $****** - ****** | Wassertürme | |||
Dec 4, 2007 | Piasa | Paris | Art Abstrait & Contemporain | 257 | $****** - ****** | Vier wasserturme | |||
Nov 29, 2007 | Kunsthaus Lempertz | Cologne | Contemporary Art | 627 | $****** - ****** | Vier Wassertürme | |||
Oct 18, 2007 | Christie's | New York | Photographs | 366 | $****** - ****** | Water Tower, Béziers, Hérault, France | |||
Oct 19, 2006 | Phillips | New York | Photographs - Part II | 287 | $****** - ****** | Water towers, Verviers, Belgium | |||
Sep 30, 2006 | Kunsthaus Lempertz | Cologne | Contemporary Photographs | 1 | $****** - ****** | Four water towers | |||
May 10, 2006 | Christie's | New York | Post-War & Contemporary Art - Afternoon Sale | 601 | $****** - ****** | Watertowers - typology | |||
Apr 29, 2006 | Kunsthaus Lempertz | Cologne | Photographs | 254 | $****** - ****** | Four water towers | |||
Dec 5, 2005 | Christie's | South Kensington | Post-War & Contemporary Art | 118 | $****** - ****** | Wasserturme, Hagen-Haspe | |||
Dec 5, 2005 | Christie's | South Kensington | Post-War & Contemporary Art | 119 | $****** - ****** | Wasserturme, Nordfrankreich | |||
Nov 9, 2005 | Christie's | New York | Post War & Contemporary Art - Afternoon Sale | 509 | $****** - ****** | Water towers | |||
Jun 23, 2005 | Sotheby's | London | Contemporary Art - Part II | 144 | $****** - ****** | Wasserturme, Hagen-Haspe - Water towers | |||
Nov 25, 2004 | Villa Grisebach Auktionen | Berlin | Photographs | 1116 | $****** - ****** | Recklinghausen - water tower series | |||
Jun 24, 2004 | Sotheby's | Olympia | Contemporary Art | 437 | $****** - ****** | Wasserturme in Honfleur | |||
Apr 27, 2004 | Christie's | New York | Photographs | 357 | $****** - ****** | Water tower | |||
May 15, 2002 | Christie's | New York | Post-War & Contemporary Art - Afternoon Sale | 391 | $****** - ****** | Watertowers | |||
Jan 29, 2001 | Cornette de Saint-Cyr | Paris | Contemporary & Modern Art | 29 | $****** - ****** | Water tower, Verviers, Belgium | |||
Nov 4, 2000 | Kunsthaus Lempertz | Cologne | Photographs | 17 | $****** - ****** | Water towers | |||
May 18, 2000 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art (part II) | 255 | $****** - ****** | Two towers |
photographs
40 x 30.5 cm (15.75 x 12.01 in)
oil on color photograph, in artist's frame
signed and dated 12. Dez. 99; signed and dated 12. Dez. 99 on the reverse
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in April 1989
Bernd and Hella Becher, Bernd and Hilla Becher: Water Towers, Cambridge 1988, pl. 76, 78 and 79, illustrated in color (another example illustrated)
Armin Zweite, Ed., Bernd & Hilla Becher: Typologies, Cambridge 2004, pl. 3, illustrated in color (another example illustrated)
i. signed, titled and dated 1988 on the reverse
ii-vi. numbered on the reverse
black and white photographs, in 6 parts.
Each: 15 3/4 by 12 in. 40 by 30.5 cm.
Executed in 1988, this work is unique.
