Lot 424
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WOLFGANG TILLMANS | Paper Drop (Krishnamurti)

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description

  • Wolfgang Tillmans
  • Paper Drop (Krishnamurti)
  • signed, titled, dated 2006 and numbered AP (ed.1 + 1 AP) on the reverse
  • c-print, in artist's frame
  • 57 1/8 by 83 3/4 in. 145.1 by 212.7 cm.
  • Executed in 2006, this work is the artist's proof from an edition of 1, plus 1 artist's proof.

Provenance

Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
Acquired from the above by David Teiger in November 2006

Exhibited

Berlin, Galerie Buchholz, Wolfgang Tillmans, Solo Exhibition, January - February 2007
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Wolfgang Tillmans, May - August 2007
Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Wolfgang Tillmans, May - October 2017, p. 50, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Literature

Exh. Cat., Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Wolfgang Tillmans: Lighter, 2008, p. 190, illustrated in color 

Condition

This work is in excellent condition overall. The work has not been examined out of the artist's frame. The bottom right corner of the frame is slightly scratched. Framed under Plexiglas, in artist's frame.
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Catalogue Note

"Maybe one thing that holds the work together, the abstract and the figurative, is that it all deals with the phenomenon of light, and reflects my fascination with making something that is untouchable tangible."
Wolfgang Tillmans