Sale 6886
London
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5 February 2004
Price realised
GBP 28,680
Estimate
Thomas Ruff (b. 1958) nudes wh 13 signed, titled, numbered and dated 'wh 13 Th. Ruff 2/5 2001' (on the backing board) chromagenic colour print mounted with Diasec Face in wooden artist frame 60 3/8 x 43½in. (153.5 x 110.5cm.) Executed in 2001, this work is number two from an edition of five plus two artist proofs
Provenance
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin.
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Literature
M. Winzen, Thomas Ruff. 1979 to the Present, Cologne 2001, no. NUD 108 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 241)
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Pre-Lot Text
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