THOMAS STRUTH (B. 1954)

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ID 829049
Lot 1 | THOMAS STRUTH (B. 1954)
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THOMAS STRUTH (B. 1954)

Queen Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh, Windsor Castle 2011

signed 'Thomas Struth' (on a label affixed to the reverse)

chromogenic print face-mounted to Plexiglass in artist's frame

image: 64 3/8 x 81 1/8in. (163.5 x 206.5cm.)

overall: 69 1/4 x 86 1/8in. (176 x 218.8cm.)

Photographed in 2011 and printed in 2012, this work is number five from an edition of six





Provenance

Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin.

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2013.



Literature

S. O’Hagan, 'Thomas Struth’s photography', in The Guardian, 3 July 2011 (another from the edition illustrated in colour).

J. Malcolm, 'Depth of Field', in The New Yorker, 26 September 2011 (another from the edition illustrated in colour).

P. Elfert, 'Thomas Struth', in Salon, June 2012 (another from the edition illustrated in colour).

B. Ramm, 'Foto: Thomas Struth', in Dagens Naeringsliv - D2, 16 June 2017 (another from the edition illustrated in colour).

H. Lloyd-Smith, 'Thomas Struth on the day he photographed the Queen and Prince Philip: ‘It was an experiment’', in Wallpaper, 2 June 2022 (another from the edition illustrated in colour).

J. Wullschläger, 'A history of majesty: the Queen‘s portraits across 70 years', in Financial Times, 8 September 2022 (another from the edition illustrated in colour).

C. Goldstein, 'In Pictures: See How Artists Have Captured Queen Elizabeth II, the U.K.’s Longest-Serving Monarch, Through Seven Decades of Her Reign', in Artnet, 8 September 2022 (another from the edition illustrated in colour).

A. Marshall, 'Artists discuss how they turned the queen into an icon', in The New York Times, 9 September 2022 (another from the edition illustrated in colour).



Exhibited

Edinburgh, The National Gallery Complex, The Queen: Art and Image, 2011 (another from the edition exhibited). This exhibition later travelled to Belfast, The Ulster Museum; Cardiff, The National Museum Cardiff; London, The National Portrait Gallery.

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Reinventing Photography: The Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker Collection, 2016-2017 (another from the edition exhibited).

Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Tudors to Windsors: Royal Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery, 2018-2019 (another from the edition exhibited). This exhibition later travelled to Bendigo, Bendigo Art Gallery.

Munich, Haus der Kunst, Thomas Struth: Figure Ground, 2017 (another from the edition exhibited).



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Another work from the edition is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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