Photo © Van Ham — view this lot on Van Ham ↗Fragment B 37, Um 992
Screenprint
Van Ham · Jun 4, 2025€39,600 ≈ $45,081 ≈ £33,346Sign up free to see price
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IT WAS IT
Joseph Kosuth (American, b. 1945) · 1986
£31,750 price realized incl. premium
≈ $39,084≈ €36,806
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- Medium
- Photograph · Photography all photograph results →As published: “mounted photograph with neon and transformer”
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed by the artist and executed in 1986
- Category
- Photographs
- Dimensions
- overall 144 x 319 cm (56 3/4 x 125 5/8 in.) certificate 12.2 x 26.9 cm (4 3/4 x 10 5/8 in.)
- Auction house
- Phillips
- Sale
- 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale (UK010623)
- Date
- October 12, 2023
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Lot
- 191
- Estimate
- £25,000 – £35,000 (≈ $30,775 – $43,085) (≈ €28,981 – €40,574)
- Source
- Auction house phillips.com ↗Retrieved Sep 27, 2026
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