Wolfgang Tillmans - New Now New York Wednesday, September 27, 2023 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
    Corporate Collection, Germany
    Van Ham Kunstauktionen, Cologne, December 2, 2020, lot 373
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Literature

    if one thing matters, everything matters. Wolfgang Tillmans, exh. cat., Tate Britain, London, 2003, p. 228 (another example illustrated)
    Wolfgang Tillmans, ed., Wolfgang Tillmans: Abstract Pictures, Ostfildern, 2011, pp. 158–159, 377 (another example illustrated, p. 159)

  • Artist Biography

    Wolfgang Tillmans

    German • 1968

    Since 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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142

paper drop (black)

inkjet print
81 7/8 x 54 3/8 in. (208 x 138.1 cm)
Executed in 2001, this work is number 1 from an edition of 1 plus 1 artist's proof and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

Estimate
$40,000 - 60,000 

Sold for $73,660

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New York Auction 27 September 2023