About the Artwork
Figure Eight, Serra Pelado, Brazil, 1986
1986
Sebastião Salgado
born 1944
Brazilian
Unknown
Gelatin silver print
Image: 17 1/4 × 11 9/16 inches (43.8 × 29.4 cm) Sheet: 19 3/4 × 15 1/4 inches (50.2 × 38.7 cm)
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Founders Society Purchase, DeRoy Photographic Acquisitions Endowment Fund, and the Albert and Peggy de Salle Charitable Trust
1994.11
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Markings
Signed, in pencil, on sheet, lower right, verso: S. S. Salgado | BRASIL - 1986
Inscribed, in pencil, on sheet, bottom right, verso: ss 08-26
Drystamp, on sheet, below image, lower left: © SEBASTIÃO SALGADO
Provenance
Linda Wolcott Moore (Mill Valley, California, USA)
1994-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Sebastião Salgado, Figure Eight, Serra Pelado, Brazil, 1986, 1986, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, DeRoy Photographic Acquisitions Endowment Fund, and the Albert and Peggy de Salle Charitable Trust, 1994.11.
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