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Burnt Matches (Another Failed Experiment)
Ben Cauchi (New Zealand, b. 1974)
NZ$4,572 price realized incl. premium
≈ $3,289≈ £2,499≈ €2,954
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- Medium
- Photograph · Photography all photograph results →As published: “tintype photograph”
- Signed / inscribed
- Title inscribed, signed and dated 2007 verso
- Category
- Photographs
- Dimensions
- 230 x 195mm
- Auction house
- Art+Object
- Sale
- Important Paintings & Contemporary Art (important-paintings-contemporary-art-16)
- Date
- August 4, 2016
- Location
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Lot
- 36
- Estimate
- —
- Source
- Auction house artandobject.co.nz ↗Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
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