Photography (A - Z)
Wednesday, 25 May 2011, 06:00 pm
Lot 708
Balthasar Burkhard, 1944-2010 (CH)
Diptych. Crow-wing and Monochrome, 1988
Black and white photograph and coloured glass, each in original iron frame.
H 1630 mm W 1360 mm.
| CHF | 20'000 / 30'000 |
| EUR | 17'000 / 26'000 |
| USD | 22'000 / 32'000 |
Hammer Price: CHF 20'000
Annotation:
Provenance: The present work is a gift of the artist for Violette Pini;
Swiss private property.
Exhibitions:
- Genève, Musée Rath, Rétrospective Balthasar Burkhard,
Eloge de l'ombre, June - September 1997;
- Charleroi, BE, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Balthasar Burkhard, L'écrivain public, 1999;
- Grenoble, FR, Musée de Grenoble, Balthasar Burkhard,
12. December 1999 - 14. February 2000.
Literature:
- Exhibition catalogue. Rétrospective Balthasar Burkhard, Eloge de l'ombre. Baden/Genève, Verlag Lars Müller/Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, 1997. Page 35, full page color illustration;
- Exhibition catalogue. Laurent Busine. Balthasar Burkhard, l'écrivain public. Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium;
- Exhibition catalogue. Balthasar Burkhard, Adrian Scheidegger, René Wochner, Stefan Wolf. Balthasar Burkhard. Grenoble, FR, Musée de Grenoble. Page 15, color illustration.
Annotation: 2 copies exist of this work.