Sale: 503 / Post War / Contemporary Art II, July 17. 2020 in Munich Lot 142

 

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Sebastião Salgado
Goundam region. This woman blinded by sandstorms and chronic eye infections, has reached a refugee camp. Mali, 1985, 1985/2020.
Fine Print
Estimate:
€ 6,000 / $ 6,480
Sold:
€ 7,500 / $ 8,100

(incl. surcharge)
Goundam region. This woman blinded by sandstorms and chronic eye infections, has reached a refugee camp. Mali, 1985. 1985/2020 printed.
Fine Print.
Verso signed, dated, titled and inscribed. 60 x 50 cm (23.6 x 19.6 in).
, size of sheet. With the artist's blindstamp.
• Salgado‘s photography is never voyeuristic. It always shows solidarity with the people it depicts (Wim Wenders)
• Salgado unsparingly documents human agony and demands an end of social injustice and war as well as an end of the predatory exploitation of the planet
• Since 1999 he has planted nearly 3 million seedlings of nearly 300 different kinds of trees in order to prove that the destruction of the rain forest can be stopped
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142
Sebastião Salgado
Goundam region. This woman blinded by sandstorms and chronic eye infections, has reached a refugee camp. Mali, 1985, 1985/2020.
Fine Print
Estimate:
€ 6,000 / $ 6,480
Sold:
€ 7,500 / $ 8,100

(incl. surcharge)