Live Auction 10421First Open/LDN
Wolfgang Tillmans (B. 1968)
Lot 197

Wolfgang Tillmans (B. 1968)

(i) We Summer (Left)(ii) We Summer (Right)

Closed23 September 2015

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GBP 6,875

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Wolfgang Tillmans (B. 1968)
(i) We Summer (Left)
(ii) We Summer (Right)
(i) signed, titled, numbered, inscribed and dated 'we summer, left ph 2004 pr. WT 09/2004 4/10+1 Wolfgang Tillmans' (on the reverse)
(ii) signed, titled, numbered, inscribed and dated 'we summer, right ph 2004 pr. WT 09/2004 4/10+1 Wolfgang Tillmans' (on the reverse)
each: C-print
each image: 10 5/8 x 12in. (27 x 30.5cm.)
each sheet: 15 7/8 x 12in. (40.5 x 30.5cm.)
each: Executed in 2004, this work is number four from an edition of ten plus one artist's proof

Wako Works of Art, Tokyo.
Private Collection, Japan.

Specialist note

The photographs We Summer (Left), and We Summer (Right) from 2004 reveal Wolfgang Tillmans’ desire to illustrate truth and frankness in his portraiture. Filled with crowds of Londoners enjoying the summer sunshine in a park, the figures in the photographs are seen blowing bubbles, blissfully unaware of the photograph being taken. Tillmans explains, ‘I want the pictures to be working in both directions. I accept that they speak about me, and yet at the same time, I want and expect them to function in terms of the viewer and their experience.’ (W. Tillmans, quoted in Interview Magazine, https://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/wolfgang-tillmans [accessed 24th July 2014]).