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Lot 424
  • 424

Thomas Ruff

Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Thomas Ruff
  • Nudes TR 08
  • signed, dated 2000 and numbered 2/5 on a label affixed to the reverse
  • chromogenic print
  • image: 99.5 by 133cm.; 39 1/8 by 52 3/8 in.
  • sheet: 121 by 153cm.; 47 5/8 by 60 1/4 in.

Provenance

David Zwirner, New York
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 2000

Literature

Matthias Winzen, Thomas Ruff: Fotografien 1979 - heute, Cologne 2001, p. 238, illustration of another example in colour
Michel Houellebecq, Thomas Ruff: Nudes, Munich 2003, pp. 110-11, illustration of another example in colour

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is brighter and contains more red undertones in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Very close inspection in raking light reveals a few extremely faint, short and unobtrusive hairline surface scratches in the perspex towards the bottom left corner. Further close inspection reveals a minute chip in the artist's frame towards the top left corner.
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