Untitled (Portraits of Women)

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THOMAS SCHÜTTE (B. 1954)
Untitled (Portraits of Women)
each: titled consecutively 'Carmen’, ‘Luise’, ‘BARBARA’, ‘DORA + BiRGIT’, ‘DANIELA’, ‘BERTA’, ‘EMANUELA’, ‘ULRIKE’, ‘ERIKA’, ‘FREYA’, ‘Mathilde’, ‘Fabia’, ‘Traudel’, ‘Charlotte’, ‘LIZ’, ‘Josepha’, ‘CAMILLA’, ‘Ester’, ‘Margret’, ‘Adele’, ‘EMMA’, ‘Ingrid’, ‘ANITA’, ‘Monika’ (lower right) and stamped with the artist’s initials and date ‘TS Sep 1991’ (lower right)
ink and watercolour on paper, in twenty-four parts
each: 23 x 19 1/8in. (58.4 x 48.6cm.)
Executed in 1991

Provenance

Galerie Philip Nelson, Paris.
David Zwirner, New York (acquired from the above).
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

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‘I have discovered that you can only draw people you don’t know because you have to completely re-invent them’
(T. Schütte, quoted in ‘Interview with J. Lingwood’, Thomas Schütte, exh. cat., Sammlung Goetz, Munich, 2001, p. 80).

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