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Details

Thomas Ruff (b. 1958)
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signed, titled and dated 'Thomas Ruff 1/3 2005' (on the reverse)
chromogenic print, in artist's frame
72 7/8 x 100 1/8in. (185.2 x 254.3cm.)
Executed in 2005, this work is number one from an edition of three plus one artist's proof

Provenance

Donated by the artist.

Exhibited

Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Thomas Ruff, 2009.

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, interview with T. Wulfflen, 'Reality So Real Its Unrecognizable', in Flash Art International, no. 168, Jan/Feb 1993, unpaged.

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