Photo © Rago Auctions — view this lot on Rago Auctions ↗Black Imitates White, 2012
Print (other)
Rago Auctions · Sep 26, 2025$8,890 ≈ £6,657 ≈ €7,617Sign up free to see price
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It’s The Real Thing
Hank Willis Thomas (American, b. 1976) · 1978/2006
$20,320 price realized incl. premium
≈ £16,063≈ €18,725
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- Medium
- Photograph · Photography all photograph results →As published: “Chromogenic print”
- Edition
- 1/5
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed on a label accompanying the work
- Category
- Photographs
- Dimensions
- 46 3/4 x 42 in. (118.7 x 106.7 cm) Overall 56 1/2 x 51 1/2 in. (143.5 x 130.8 cm)
- Auction house
- Phillips
- Sale
- Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation (NY040024)
- Date
- April 4, 2024
- Location
- New York
- Lot
- 65
- Estimate
- $8,000 – $12,000 (≈ £6,324 – £9,486) (≈ €7,372 – €11,058)
- Source
- Auction house phillips.com ↗Retrieved Sep 26, 2026
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