Photo © Phillips — view this lot on Phillips ↗'Texts for Nothing #18', 2010
Other
Phillips · Oct 21, 2020£30,240 ≈ $39,490 ≈ €33,320Sign up free to see price
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Small Explanations (That Refer and Construct)
Joseph Kosuth (American, b. 1945) · 2017
$64,500 price realized incl. premium
≈ £47,753≈ €55,156
Hammer $50,000 · with buyer’s premium $64,500
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- Medium
- Photograph · Photography all photograph results →As published: “Unique warm white neon mounted directly on the wall, with two mounted and framed photographs, with transformers”
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed Certificate of Ownership issued by the artist
- Category
- Photographs
- Dimensions
- 61 3/8 x 76 3/4 in. (155.9 x 194.9 cm)
- Auction house
- Phillips
- Sale
- DUCHAMP & COMPANY, Curated by Francis M. Naumann (NY030826)
- Date
- April 23, 2026
- Location
- New York, United States
- Lot
- 492
- Estimate
- $60,000 – $80,000 (≈ £44,421 – £59,229) (≈ €51,308 – €68,411)
- Source
- Auction house phillips.com ↗Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
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