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Wolfgang Tillmans
Selected images
- Estimate
- $40,000 - 60,000
$100,000
Lot Details
Sixteen chromogenic prints.
1991-1995
Each 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm) or 16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.5 cm) or the reverse
Each signed, titled, dated and numbered in ink on the verso. Each from an edition of 3 plus 1 artist’s proof or edition of 10 plus 1 artist’s proof.
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Catalogue Essay
Titles include:
Rachel Auburn, January 1995
Wet Tree, December 1993
Operation Theatre II, January 1994
Lutz, Alex, Suzanne & Christoph au Strand, July 3, 1993
Lutz Wanking, August 1991
Lutz, Plastic Trousers, August 1992
Adam, Levi's, December 1991
Arse in Fountain (repro), May 1994
Chemistry, Young Woman, September 1992
Blatt (Mille), November 1994
Christos, April 1992
Adam Doing Up Boot, 1991
Barthaut (vigneted), April 1992
Anna, SBB, Blue, March 1994
Alex & Lutz Holding Each Other, August, 1992
Four Boots, August 1992
Additional prints of Four Boots, August 1992 are also owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Rachel Auburn, January 1995
Wet Tree, December 1993
Operation Theatre II, January 1994
Lutz, Alex, Suzanne & Christoph au Strand, July 3, 1993
Lutz Wanking, August 1991
Lutz, Plastic Trousers, August 1992
Adam, Levi's, December 1991
Arse in Fountain (repro), May 1994
Chemistry, Young Woman, September 1992
Blatt (Mille), November 1994
Christos, April 1992
Adam Doing Up Boot, 1991
Barthaut (vigneted), April 1992
Anna, SBB, Blue, March 1994
Alex & Lutz Holding Each Other, August, 1992
Four Boots, August 1992
Additional prints of Four Boots, August 1992 are also owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Provenance
Literature
Wolfgang Tillmans
German | 1968Since the early 1990s, Wolfgang Tillmans has pushed the boundaries of the photographic medium. Challenging the indexical nature traditionally associated with photography, his abstract and representational photographic bodies of work each in their own way put forward the notion of the photograph as object—rather than as a record of reality. While achieving his breakthrough with portraits and lifestyle photographs, documenting celebrity culture as well as LGBTQ communities and club culture, since the turn of the millennium the German photographer has notably created abstract work such as the Freischwimmer series, which is made in the darkroom without a camera.Seamlessly integrating genres, subject matters, techniques and exhibition strategies, Tillmans is known for photographs that pair playfulness and intimacy with a persistent questioning of dominant value and hierarchy structures of our image-saturated world. In 2000, Tillmans was the first photographer to receive the prestigious Turner Prize.
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