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Hall of Thirty-Three Bays, 1995

  • Hiroshi Sugimoto, Japanese, born 1948

Gelatin silver print

  • Image: 16 5/8 × 21 3/8 inches (42.2 × 54.3 cm) Sheet: 18 5/8 × 23 5/8 inches (47.3 × 60 cm) Mount: 19 3/4 × 25 inches (50.2 × 63.5 cm)
  • 26 × 32 3/4 inches (66 × 83.2 cm)

Museum Purchase, Albert and Peggy de Salle Charitable Trust Fund, Asian and Islamic Art Forum, Asian and Islamic Art Forum Acquisition Fund; and gift of Clan Crawford, Jr. by exchange

2007.4.3

Signed, in pencil, on mount, lower right: Hiroshi Sugimoto

Dry stamp, on sheet, below image, lower right: 3/25 048

(Sonnabend Gallery, New York, New York, USA)

2007-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Kit-Yiu Chau, Amelia. "Allusive Variation: Hiroshi Sugimoto's Hall of Thirty-Three Bays" Bulletin of the DIA: Photography 84, 1/4 (2010): p. 44.

Hiroshi Sugimoto, Hall of Thirty-Three Bays, 1995, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Albert and Peggy de Salle Charitable Trust Fund, Asian and Islamic Art Forum, et al., 2007.4.3.