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Wolfgang Tillmans

Like Praying I and Like Praying II (two photographs)

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December 15, 04:40 PM GMT

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12,000 - 18,000 USD

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Wolfgang Tillmans

b. 1968

Like Praying I and Like Praying II (two photographs)

 

i. signed Wolfgang Tillmans, titled Like Praying I, annotated ph 1094 and print 1294, and editioned 4/10+1 (on the reverse); annotated and editioned again (on the reverse of the frame)

ii. signed Wolfgang Tillmans, titled Like Praying II, annotated ph 1094 and print 1294, and editioned 2/10+1 (on the reverse); annotated and editioned again (on the reverse of the frame)

2 chromogenic prints

each: 9⅜ by 14¼ in. 

23.8 by 36.2 cm. 

Executed in 1994; these works are each number 2 or number 4 from editions of 10 plus one artist's proof.

Andrea Rosen Gallery

Acquired from the above by the present owner

David Deitcher, Burg: Wolfgang Tillmans, Köln, 1998, np, illustrated

Michael Mack, Surface - Contemporary Photographic Practice, London, 1996, p. 163-64, illustrated  

Wolfgang Tillmans, ed., Wolfgang Tillmans: Burg, Köln, 1998, p. 43, illustrated

Wolfgang Tillmans, if one thing matters, everything matters, London, 2003, p. 87, pl. 58-9, illustrated

Rachel Withers, "Better Tate," Artforllill, September 2000, p. 73, illustrated (just Like Praying I)

Exh. Cat., Zürich, Kunsthalle Zurich, ars viva 95/96 Photographie - Thomas Demand, Jochen Lempert, Barbara Probst, Wolfgang Tillmans, 1995, p. 48, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfgang Tillmans: for when I'm weak I'm strong, 1996, p. 151, illustrated

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear, 2022-2023; Toronto, The Art Gallery of Ontario, 2023; and San Francisco, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2023-2024, p. 248 (another print exhibited)