Lot 38
  • 38

Thomas Ruff

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Thomas Ruff
  • Porträt (J. Rubell)
  • signed, dated 1989 and numbered 1/4 on the backing board
  • c-print, in artist's frame
  • image: 159.5 by 120 cm. 62 3/4 by 47 1/4 in.
  • framed: 210.5 by 165.5 cm. 82 7/8 by 65 1/8 in.
  • This work is number 1 from an edition of 4.

Provenance

Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1997

Exhibited

Essen, Museum Folkwang Essen; Oslo, Museet for Samtidskunst Oslo; Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus; Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art; Vitoria-Gasteiz, Artium - Centro Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo; Porto, Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves; and Liverpool, Tate, Thomas Ruff: Fotografien 1979 - heute, February 2002 - September 2003, p. 187, no. POR073, illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown) 

Condition

Colour: The colour in the catalogue illustration is fairly accurate, although the overall the background is warmer and the skin tones are slightly cooler in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Very close inspection reveals a few tiny nicks to the frame.
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Catalogue Note

"I believe that photography can only reproduce the surface of things. The same applies to a portrait. I take photos of people the same way I would take photos of a plaster bust" (Thomas Ruff cited in, Richard Dorment, ‘Photography in Focus’, The Telegraph, 29 May 2003, online).