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PROPERTY from a private collection RINEKE DIJKSTRA (b. 1959) ODESSA, UKRAINE, AUGUST 4, 1993 sign...

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PROPERTY from a private collection RINEKE DIJKSTRA (b. 1959) ODESSA, UKRAINE, AUGUST 4, 1993 sign...
PROPERTY from
a private collection
RINEKE DIJKSTRA
(b. 1959)
ODESSA, UKRAINE, AUGUST 4, 1993
signed "Rineke Dijkstra" and numbered of six on the reverse
c-print
49 x 41 in. (124.5 x 104.1 cm)
executed in 1993
this work is from an edition of six
ESTIMATE: $150,000-200,000

PROVENANCE
Galerie Paul Andriesse, AMSTERDAM

EXHIBITED
ESSEN, Museum Folkwang and Leipzig, Galerie der Hochshule für Grafik Buchkunst, RINEKE DIJKSTRA: MENSCHENBILDER, March 29-June 28, 1998, p. 11 (another example exhibited; illustrated)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Modern Starts: People
Places Things, October 7, 1999-March 14, 2000, p. 142 (another example exhibited)
BOSTON, Institute of Contemporary Art, RINeKE DIJKSTRA: PORTRAITS, April 17-July 1, 2001, p. 45 (another example exhibited; illustrated)
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Moving Pictures,
June 28, 2002-January 12, 2003 (another example exhibited)

LITERATURE
B. Uccia and E. Collavo, RINEKE DIJKSTRA: BEACHES, ZÜRICH, 1996,
p. 21 (illustrated)
P. Ellis, EUROVISION, LONDON, 1998, n.p. (illustrated)
E. Skildsen, RINEKE DIJKSTRA: MENSCHENBILDER, ESSEN, 1998, p. 11 (illustrated) and cover illustration
U. Grosenick and B. Riemschneider, eds., ART AT THE TURN OF THE MILLENIUM, COLOGNE, 1999, p. 125, no. 08 (illustrated)
J. Elderfield, P. Reed, M. Chan, and M. de Carmen-Gonzalez, Modern Starts: People Places Things, New York, p. 142, 1999
K. Siegel, RINEKE DIJKSTRA: PORTRAITS, NEW YORK, 2001,
p. 45 (illustrated)
C. Ehlers and J. Rondeau, RINEKE DIJKSTRA: BEACH PORTRAITS,
NEW YORK, 2002, n.p. (illustrated)
THE BEACH PORTRAITS ALLOW THE VIEWER TO CLOSELY OBSERVE THE SUBJECT IN DETAIL, AND SIMULTANEOUSLY MAINTAIN AN ATMOSPHERE OF THE UNKNOWN. "I DON'T KNOW THEM. I HAVE BEEN WITH THEM FOR JUST A SHORT WHILE. IT IS THROUGH THE PHOTOGRAPHS THAT I KNOW THEM. I CAN FANTASIZE WHO THEY ARE. I THINK IT IS MORE INTERESTING THAT YOU DON'T KNOW. SOMETIMES YOU GET EXCITED ABOUT A PERSON BUT YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS. IN THE END IT IS ALL ABOUT RECOGNITION."
C. Ehlers and J. Rondeau, RINEKE DIJKSTRA:
BEACH PORTRAITS, CHICAGO, 2002, p. 56