Photo © Phillips — view this lot on Phillips ↗Selection from Survival: The Future is Stupid, 2006
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Truth Before Power
Jenny Holzer (American, b. 1950) · 2004
£2,375 price realized incl. premium
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- Medium
- Photograph · Photography all photograph results →As published: “The complete set of four digital pigment prints, on Hahnemühle photo rag paper, with full margins”
- Support
- Paper
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed and annotated · Jenny Holzer signature
- Category
- Photographs
- Dimensions
- all I. 50.1 x 40 cm (19 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.) all S. 55.5 x 45.1 cm (21 7/8 x 17 3/4 in.)
- Auction house
- Phillips
- Sale
- Edition Schellmann: Fifty Are Better Than One (UK030319)
- Date
- June 6, 2019
- Location
- London
- Lot
- 89
- Estimate
- £2,000 – £3,000 (≈ $2,544 – $3,817) (≈ €2,258 – €3,388)
- Source
- Auction house phillips.com ↗Retrieved Sep 27, 2026
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