Lot 42
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Thomas Ruff (b. 1958)
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Thomas Ruff (b. 1958)

Nude bb 36

Details
Thomas Ruff (b. 1958)
Nude bb 36
signed, titled, numbered and dated 'Thomas Ruff bb36 3/5 2002'
chromogenic colour print mounted with Diasec face in artist's frame
image: 51 3/8 x 35½in. (130.5 x 90.2cm.)
overall: 59½ x 43½in. (151 x 110.5cm.)
Executed in 2002, this work is number three from an edition of five plus two artist's proofs
Provenance
Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
M. Houellebecq, Thomas Ruff: Nudes, New York 2003 (illustrated in colour, p. 149).
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.

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Lot Essay

'Our image models are the images in the media. For that reason, my images are not depictions of reality, but show a kind of second reality, the image of the image' (T. Ruff, quoted in V. Liebermann, 'Photography as Proving Ground', Thomas Ruff, exh. cat., London, 2001, unpaged).

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