Lot 153
  • 153

Thomas Ruff

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description

  • Thomas Ruff
  • Nudes pus 08
  • signed, dated 2000 and numbered 4/5 on the reverse
  • c-print on Diasec face
  • 47 by 43 in.
  • 120 by 110 cm.
  • Executed in 2000, this work is number 4 from an edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs.

Provenance

David Zwirner, New York
Christie's, New York, March 16, 2006, lot 33
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

Literature

M. Winzen, ed., Thomas Ruff: 1979 to the Present, New York, 2003, p. 239, illustrated in color
M. Houellebecq, Thomas Ruff Nudes, New York, 2003, p. 65, illustrated in color

Condition

There are a few faint and intermittent scratches to the Plexiglas. There is a three inch unobtrusive scratch on the surface of the Plexiglas in the central left quandrantto the image. Not examined out of the frame. Framed in the oringial frame as specified by the artist.
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