Lot 250
  • 250

Thomas Ruff

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Thomas Ruff
  • Nudes go21
  • signed, dated 2000 on the reverse of the mount
  • c-print with Diasec face, in artist's wooden frame
  • 145 by 122 cm. 57 by 48 in.
  • Executed in 2000, this work is from an edition of 5, plus 2 artist's proofs.

Provenance

Private Collection, Europe

Exhibited

New York, David Zwirner, Thomas Ruff: Nudes, April - May 2000 (ed. no unknown)
Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle; Essen, Museum Folkwang; Oslo, Museet for Samtidskunst; 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; Liverpool, Tate Liverpool, Thomas Ruff: 1979 to the Present, November 2001 - April 2003, p 237, no. NUD 025, illustrated in colour (ed. no. unknown)

Literature

Michel Houellebecq, Thomas Ruff Nudes, Munich 2003, p. 66, illustrated in colour (ed. no. unknown)

Condition

Colour: The colour in the catalogue illustration is fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is slightly warmer in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Inspection in raking light reveals a few splash accretions and superficial scuffs to the Plexiglas. Close inspection reveals a few small and unobtrusive chips in isolated places to the edges and corners of the frame. Very close inspection reveals a hairline crack and small associated losses running along the lower left face of the frame.
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