Wolfgang Tillmans - Photographs New York Friday, April 5, 2024 | Phillips

Photographs

New York Auction 5 April 2024

  • Provenance

    Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, 2014

  • Literature

    Hatja Cantz, Wolfgang Tillmans: Abstract Pictures, pl. 160

  • 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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Wolfgang Tillmans

paper drop (white) b

2004
Chromogenic print.
16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.5 cm)
Signed, titled, dated, annotated 'Wolfgang Tillmans, paper drop (white) b, ph 2004, pr WT 04/2004, 8/10 +1' in pencil on the verso. Photographed in 2004 and printed in 2004, this work is number eight from an edition of ten plus one artist's proof.

Estimate
$10,000 - 15,000 

Sold for $24,130

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Photographs

New York Auction 5 April 2024