Lot 5
  • 5

Wolfgang Tillmans

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description

  • Wolfgang Tillmans
  • Still Life Talbot Rd.
  • signed, titled, dated 91 and numbered 2/10 + 1 on the reverse
  • c-print
  • 30.5 by 40.6 cm. 12 by 16 in.
  • Executed in 1991, this work is number 2 from an edition of 10, plus 1 artist’s proof.

Provenance

Galerie Buchholz, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

London, Tate Britain, Wolfgang Tillmans: if one thing matters, everything matters, June - September 2003, p. 41, illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown)

Literature

Wolfgang Tillmans, Ed., Wolfgang Tillmans, Burg, Cologne 1998, n.p., illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown)
Joanna Biggs, Wolfgang Tillmans: 'Pictures are replacing words as messages', The Guardian, 9 May 2014, illustrated in colour, online (edition no. unknown)

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is slightly brighter in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Very close inspection reveals a small and unobtrusive handling crease towards the centre right edge and two small and unobtrusive black surface irregularities to the lower half of the composition.
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