Auction A536 The Bayer Collection
Jun 3, 2025
Hitzelerstr. 2, 50968 Köln, Germany
Auction: Tuesday, 3 June 2025
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LOT 148:

Andreas Gursky: Zoobrücke, Köln

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Start price:
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Estimate :
€10,000 - €15,000
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Auction took place on Jun 3, 2025 at VAN HAM Kunstauktionen GmbH Co. KG
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Andreas Gursky: Zoobrücke, Köln
GURSKY, ANDREAS
1955 Leipzig

Title: Zoobrücke, Köln.
Date: 1988.
Technique: C-Print.
Depiction Size: 100 x 75cm.
Sheet Size: 130 x 103cm.
Notation: Signed on sticker verso.
Number: 10/20.
Frame: Framed. Not examined out of the frame.

The work is listed on the artist's official website (www.andreasgursky.com).

Provenance:
- Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne (adhesive label)
- Bayer Inc., USA
- Bayer AG, Leverkusen (acquired from the previous owner in 2005)

Exhibitions:
- Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 2013

Literature:
- Exhib. cat. From Beckmann to Warhol, Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries - The Bayer Collection, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cologne 2013, p. 281, fig.

- Early work by the well-known Becher pupil
- Extremely clear and reduced visual language with a typical view of the effects of modernism
- Gursky represented German photography in the American part of the Bayer Collection alongside Candida Höfer and Thomas Ruff

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This lot will be sold under standard taxation (Condition of Sale §V5.1)

Explanations to the Catalogue

Andreas Gursky
Germany
Becher School
Contemporary Art
Photographs
1980s
Framed. Not examined out of the frame
Cityscape
Photography
C-print

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