Sebastião Salgado
(born 1944)
Ubumbwe (Silverback mountain gorilla – leader of the Amahoro group) in Mist over the Forest of the Bisoke Volcano, Rwanda, from "Genesis," 2004
(born 1944)
Ubumbwe (Silverback mountain gorilla – leader of the Amahoro group) in Mist over the Forest of the Bisoke Volcano, Rwanda, from "Genesis," 2004
Sale 1131 - Photographs
Dec 6, 2022
1:00PM CT
Live / Chicago
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Sebastião Salgado
(born 1944)
Ubumbwe (Silverback mountain gorilla – leader of the Amahoro group) in Mist over the Forest of the Bisoke Volcano, Rwanda, from "Genesis," 2004
(born 1944)
Ubumbwe (Silverback mountain gorilla – leader of the Amahoro group) in Mist over the Forest of the Bisoke Volcano, Rwanda, from "Genesis," 2004
Gelatin silver print, printed 2007, facsimile signature blindstamp in the margin; signed, titled and dated in pencil on the verso.
image: 14.4 x 20.2in. (36.6 x 51.3cm.)
sheet: 20 x 24in. (50.8 x 61cm.)
An Important Western Collection
Other wonderful examples of Salgado's "photographic homage to the world in its natural state," as he describes it, can be found elsewhere in this sale.
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