Lot Essay
‘The darkness, the colour, where it’s positioned – all that needs time to look at. It’s a constant study of cause and effect that I do.’
– Wolfgang Tillmans
– Wolfgang Tillmans
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Total Solar Eclipse Aruba
Details
Wolfgang Tillmans (b. 1968)
Total Solar Eclipse Aruba
inkjet print
image: 80 1/8 x 53 1/8in. (203.5 x 135cm.)
sheet: 82 1/8 x 54 3/8in. (208.6 x 138cm.)
Photographed in 1998 and printed in 2018, this work is number one from an edition of one plus one artist's proof
Total Solar Eclipse Aruba
inkjet print
image: 80 1/8 x 53 1/8in. (203.5 x 135cm.)
sheet: 82 1/8 x 54 3/8in. (208.6 x 138cm.)
Photographed in 1998 and printed in 2018, this work is number one from an edition of one plus one artist's proof
Provenance
Galerie Buchholz, Cologne.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2000.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2000.
Literature
D. Deitcher, Wolfgang Tillmans: Burg, London 1998 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, unpaged).
J. Verwoert, P. Halley, et al., Wolfgang Tillmans, London 2002 (installation view at Andrea Rosen Gallery of another version illustrated in colour, p. 132).
J. Verwoert, P. Halley, et al., Wolfgang Tillmans, London 2014 (another version illustrated in colour, p. 143).
J. Verwoert, P. Halley, et al., Wolfgang Tillmans, London 2002 (installation view at Andrea Rosen Gallery of another version illustrated in colour, p. 132).
J. Verwoert, P. Halley, et al., Wolfgang Tillmans, London 2014 (another version illustrated in colour, p. 143).
Exhibited
Cologne, Galerie Buchholz, Wolfgang Tillmans, 1999 (another version exhibited).
New York, Andrea Rosen Gallery, Wolfgang Tillmans, 2001 (another version exhibited).
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Wolfgang Tillmans, 2006-2007 (another version exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 56). This exhibition later travelled to Los Angeles, Hammer Museum and Washington, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
New York, Andrea Rosen Gallery, Wolfgang Tillmans, 2010 (another version exhibited).
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Wolfgang Tillmans, 2012-2013 (another version exhibited). This exhibition later travelled to Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen.
New York, Andrea Rosen Gallery, Wolfgang Tillmans, 2001 (another version exhibited).
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Wolfgang Tillmans, 2006-2007 (another version exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 56). This exhibition later travelled to Los Angeles, Hammer Museum and Washington, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
New York, Andrea Rosen Gallery, Wolfgang Tillmans, 2010 (another version exhibited).
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Wolfgang Tillmans, 2012-2013 (another version exhibited). This exhibition later travelled to Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
Further details
This work is accompanied by a signed certificate of authenticity; a colour match print of the present work, and a data CD.
Another version is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Another version is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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