Thomas Ruff - Photographs London Wednesday, May 16, 2012 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    303 Gallery, New York; Christies, New York, 17 November 2000, lot 556

  • Literature

    M. Winzen, Thomas Ruff: 1979 to the Present, Cologne: König, 2001, p. 192

  • Catalogue Essay

    “Ruff seems to be playing off the technical and compositional precision of the take against the anonymity of the banal street scene, staging a clash between the anonymous placelessness of the view and a photographic precision that always suggests a concrete locality. Given that this inconspicuous side street could just as well be in Essen, Munich-Giesing or Cologne-Bickendorf, all we really have is its image, a general image of a particular banality.” (M. Winzen, Thomas Ruff: 1979 to the Present, Cologne: König, 2001, p. 137)

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Haus Nr. 11 III

1990
Colour coupler print, Diasec mounted.
134 x 185.5 cm (52 3/4 x 73 in)
Signed, dated and numbered in pencil on the reverse of the flush-mount. One from an edition of 4 plus 2 artist's proofs.

Estimate
£15,000 - 20,000 

Sold for £22,500

Photographs

17 May 2012
London