Live Auction 5539Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction
Thomas Ruff (b. 1958)
Lot 144

Thomas Ruff (b. 1958)

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Closed28 June 2012

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GBP 39,650

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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

Donated by the artist.

Specialist note

"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.