Wolfgang Tillmans (b. 1968)
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Wolfgang Tillmans (b. 1968)

JAL

Details
Wolfgang Tillmans (b. 1968)
JAL
signed with the artist's initials, inscribed, numbered and dated 'Jal ph 97 pr WT 97 2/3 +1' (on the reverse)
c-print
image: 21 ½ x 14 ½in. (54.6 x 36.8cm.)
sheet: 23 7/8 x 19 7/8in. (60.7 x 50.5cm.)
Photographed and printed in 1997, this work is number two from an edition of three plus one artist's proof
Provenance
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York.
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; installation view at Chisenhale Gallery illustrated in colour, unpaged).
B. Riemschneider (ed.), Wolfgang Tillmans, Cologne 2002 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, unpaged).
J. Verwoert, P. Halley, et al., Wolfgang Tillmans, London 2002 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 37).
J. Verwoert, P. Halley, et al., Wolfgang Tillmans, London 2014 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 37).
T. Vischer (ed.), Wolfgang Tillmans, exh. cat., Basel, Fondation Beyeler, 2017 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 270).
Exhibited
London, Chisenhale Gallery, I Didn't Inhale, 1997 (another version exhibited).
London, Tate Britain, Wolfgang Tillmans: If One Thing Matters, Everything Matters, 2003 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 125).
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Wolfgang Tillmans, 2012-2013 (another version exhibited).
Berlin, Berlinische Galerie Museum für Moderne Kunst, Faraway Focus: Photographers Go Travelling 1880-2015, 2017 (another version exhibited).
Porto, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Wolfgang Tillmans: On the Verge of Visibility, 2016 (another from the edition exhibited).
London, Tate Modern, Wolfgang Tillmans, 2017 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 35).
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
Other versions are in the collections of Tate, London and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

Lot Essay

‘In photography I like to assume exactly the unprivileged position, the position everybody can take, that chooses to sit at an airplane window or chooses to climb a tower.’
– Wolfgang Tillmans

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