Lot 460
  • 460

Thomas Ruff (b.1958)

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Thomas Ruff
  • Nudes Lu 10, 1999
  • signed, dated 1999 and numbered 2/5 on the backing board

  • chromogenic colour print mounted with Diasec face
  • overall: 134.5 by 94.5cm.; 53 by 37 1/4 in.
  • sheet: 120.6 by 80cm.; 47 1/2 by 31 1/2 in.
  • Executed in 1999, this work is number 2 from an edition of 5.
C-type, front mounted to Plexiglas. Signed, dated and numbered '2/5' in pencil on reverse of mount. Framed. Number 2 in an edition of 5.

Literature

Houellebecq, Michel, Thomas Ruff Nudes, A Short Story, Munich, 2003, p. 145.

Condition

This work is in very good condition. Some scratching to perspex surface visible.
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