The Nicholas Metivier Gallery is pleased to announce that
Salt Pan #18 by
Edward Burtynsky has been acquired by
The J. Paul Getty Museum as part of their permanent collection.
Salt Pan #18 is part of Burtynsky's
Salt Pans series, which debuted in 2016. For this project, Burtynsky traveled to Gujarat, India to photograph the Little Rann of Kutch, a region that is home to more than 100,000 salt workers extracting around one million tons of salt from the floodwaters of the Arabian Sea each year. From an aerial vantage point approximately 500 - 800 feet above the ground, Burtynsky photographed this unusual landscape of multi-coloured interlocking rectangles, spanning across the delta.
Burtynsky's photographs are included in the collections of over sixty major museums around the world, including the National Gallery of Canada; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid; the Tate Modern, London and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California.
For more information, please contact
Carly Shiff, (416) 205-9000.
