Sale 7296
London
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17 October 2006
Price realised
GBP 26,400
Estimate
Thomas Ruff (b. 1958) Nude gd 01 signed, titled, numbered and dated 'TH Ruff gd01 3/5 2001' (on the reverse) chromogenic colour print mounted with Diasec face in wooden artist frame 45 x 47½in. (114.3 x 120cm.) Executed in 2001, this work is number three from an edition of five plus two artist proofs
Provenance
Galerie Mai 36, Zurich.
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Literature
M. Winzen, ed., Thomas Ruff: 1979 to the present, Cologne 2001, no. Nud 091 (illustrated in colour, p. 241). M. Houellebecq, Thomas Ruff Nudes, Munich 2003, (illustrated in colour, p. 115).
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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis. 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.
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