Sale 7192
London
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9 February 2006
Price realised
GBP 42,000
Estimate
Thomas Ruff (b. 1958) nudes fe 16 signed, numbered and dated 'Th. Ruff 2000' (on the reverse) laserchrome print mounted with Diasec face in artist frame 61 x 43 3/8in. (155 x 110cm.) Executed in 2000, this work is from an edition of five plus two artist proofs
Provenance
Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne.
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Literature
M. Winzen (ed.), Thomas Ruff 1979 to the Present, Cologne 2001, no. NUD 048 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 238). M. Houellebecq, Thomas Ruff Nudes, New York 2003 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 116).
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