Auction A536 The Bayer Collection
Jun 3, 2025
Hitzelerstr. 2, 50968 Köln, Germany
Auction: Tuesday, 3 June 2025
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LOT 147:

Lee Friedlander: Cherry Blossom Time in Japan


Start price:
6,500
Estimate :
€8,000 - €12,000
Buyer's Premium: 35%
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Auction took place on Jun 3, 2025 at VAN HAM Kunstauktionen GmbH Co. KG
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Lee Friedlander: Cherry Blossom Time in Japan
FRIEDLANDER, LEE
1934 Aberdeen, Washington

Title: Cherry Blossom Time in Japan. 24 parts.
Date: 1986.
Technique: Each: Photogravure.
Depiction Size: 21.5 x 32cm resp. 32 x 21.5cm.
Sheet Size: 38 x 47.5cm resp. 47.5 x 38cm.
Notation: Signed and numbered.
Number: 33/50.
Frame: Framed.

Provenance:
- Laurence Miller Gallery, New York
- Bayer Inc., USA
- Bayer AG, Leverkusen (acquired from the previous owner in 2005)

Exhibitions:
- Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 2013

Literature:
- Miksche, Uta: Bayer Collection of Contemporary Art, Sewickly 1995, p. 40f., fig.
- Exhib. cat. From Beckmann to Warhol, Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries - The Bayer Collection, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cologne 2013, p. 271, fig.

- 24 photographs from the 75-part series, which were purchased for the Bayer Collection in 1987
- The 'Cherry Blossom' series was created during Lee Friedlander's stay in Japan
- Beautiful landscape photographs with the usual focussed view of individual elements

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Explanations to the Catalogue

Lee Friedlander
USA
Contemporary Art
Photographs
1980s
Framed
Tree
Photography
Flowers