Lot 139: q - ROI KUPER B. 1956

each signed in Hebrew and dated 1998

gelatin silver print (2 works)

These works are number 2 from an edition of 5

each: 18 1/2 by 18 1/2 in.<br><br>47 by 47 cm.

Herzliya Museum of Art, Citrus Necropolis Roi Kuper, Herzliya, 2001, pages 72 and 77, illustrated

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, ISRAEL

In 1996 Roi Kuper paired up with Gilad Ophir and created the series Necropolis (meaning "City of the Dead"). Insistently working to create direct, unmanipulated photographic images, Kuper aimed his camera at active and abandoned structures and military bases which have become quasi-archeological monuments of Israeli history, damaging the environment and leaving in their wake decay and ruins.

8 images from the Necropolis Project are in the collection of the Tate Modern, London