© Phillips — view on Phillips website ↗Colors of Shadow C1025, 2006
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The Music Lesson
Hiroshi Sugimoto (Japanese, b. 1948) · 1999
$629,000 price realized incl. premium
≈ £378,232≈ €456,128
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- Medium
- Photograph · Photography all photograph results →As published: “Pigment print”
- Edition
- 5/5
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed in ink
- Category
- Photographs
- Dimensions
- 53 1/8 x 41 3/4 in. (134.9 x 106 cm)
- Auction house
- Phillips
- Sale
- Photographs (NY040114)
- Date
- April 1, 2014
- Location
- New York
- Lot
- 63
- Estimate
- $200,000 – $250,000 (≈ £120,265 – £150,331) (≈ €145,033 – €181,291)
- Source
- Auction house phillips.com ↗Retrieved Sep 27, 2026
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