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Description: each signed and numbered on the reverse; titled and dated sequentially from top to bottom on the mount; dated 1976 - 77 on the mount

black and white photographs, in 9 parts

Executed from 1967-1977, this work is unique.

Siege Bruay No. 3, Bassin du Nord, France 1971
Siege Verpilleux, St. Etienne, France 1967
Siege Auchel No. 5, Bassin du Nord, France 1967
Siege Estacade, Charleroi, Belgium 1971
Siege Grand Combe, Bassin des Cevennes, France 1967
Siege Auchel No. 5, Bassin du Nord, France 1967
Siege Bussu Bois, Borinage, Belgium 1967
Siege Nicolas, Liège, Belgium 1976
Siège Heribus, Borinage Belgium 1971
PROVENANCE

Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels
Acquired by the present owner from the above at a benefit auction in 1983
EXHIBITED

The Art Institute of Chicago; Washington D.C., The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Fort Worth Art Museum; Cincinnati, The Contemporary Arts Center, Europe in the Seventies: Aspects of Recent Art, October 1977 - January 1979, p. 27
CATALOGUE NOTE

What we decide to photograph is affected by certain necessities. Many of these structures are disappearing. All the time they are being dismantled or rusting or crubling away. Our main problem is a fight against time."
Bernd & Hilla Becher, The Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1974

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Dimensions: each: 9 3/8 by 12 in. 23.9 by 30.5 cm.

overall mount: 36 by 42 in. 91.5 by 106.7 cm.