Lot 138
  • 138

Thomas Ruff (b.1958)

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Thomas Ruff
  • Nudes VN 09, 2001
  • signed, titled, dated 2001 and numbered 4/5 on the reverse

  • laserchrome print with diasec face
  • image: 129 by 90cm.; 5 3/4 by 35 1/2 in.
  • overall: 149.2 by 110.2.; 58 3/4 by 43 3/8 in.
  • This work is number 4 from an edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs.
C-type, front mounted to Plexiglas. Signed, titled, dated and numbered '4/5' in pencil on reverse of mount. Framed. Number 4 in an edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs.

Provenance

Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

Literature

Exhibition Catalogue, Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, and travelling, Thomas Ruff: Fotografien 1997-Heute, Cologne 2001, p. 241, no. NUD 107.

Condition

This work is in very good condition. A few very light scratches visible in places on the perspex surface when viewed in raking light.
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