nudes fee 18

Details

Thomas Ruff (b. 1958)
nudes fee 18
signed, numbered and dated 'Th Ruff 4/5 2001' (on the reverse)
chromagenic colour print mounted with Diasec in artist wooden frame
43½ x 55¼in. (110.4 x 140.4cm.)
Executed in 2001, this work is number four from an edition of five plus two artist proofs

Provenance

Baronian Francey, Brussels.
Hamiltons, London.

Literature

M. Winzen (ed.), Thomas Ruff 1979 to the Present, Cologne 2001, no. NUD 073 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 240).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

"I've been interested in the genre of nude photography for a long time. What I find altogether boring is contemporary nude photography of the kind currently carried on by fashion photographers, who take supposedly interesting photographs of pretty models in some pleasant ambiance. That's something for adolescent 13-year-old Max readers. I'm 41, and when I'm naked I'm either lying in the bathtub or in bed with my girlfriend. My nude photographs are intended to be somewhat 'more adult.' In order to see what this other kind of nude photography might look like, I started doing some research on the internet--the marketplace for goods and information. And I found some strange things there." (Thomas Ruff, quoted in S. Leeb, "Suchmaschinen. Interview with Thomas Ruff," Texte zur Kunst, December 1999, vol. 9, no. 36, p. 73)

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