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THOMAS SCHÜTTE (B. 1954)
Lot 155

THOMAS SCHÜTTE (B. 1954)

Untitled (Portraits of Women)

Closed1 July 2015

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GBP 182,500

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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

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

Specialist note

‘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).