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  • Provenance

    David Zwirner, New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    New York, David Zwirner, Wolfgang Tillmans: PCR, September 16–October 24, 2015 (another example exhibited)
    London, Tate Modern, Wolfgang Tillmans: 2017, February 15–June 11, 2017 (another example exhibited)

  • Literature

    Adrian Searle, “Wolfgang Tillmans review – a rollercoaster ride around the world,” The Guardian, February 14, 2017, online (another example illustrated)
    Jackie Wullschlager, “Diversity, dirty laundry and dancing legs: Wolfgang Tillmans at Tate Modern,” Financial Times, February 21, 2017, online (another example illustrated)

  • 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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Sunset night drive, a

signed, titled, numbered and dated "Sunset night drive, a ph 12/2014 pr WT 06/2017 3/10+1 Wolfgang Tillmans" on the reverse
inkjet print on paper
12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Photographed in 2014 and printed in 2017, this work is number 3 from an edition of 10 plus 1 artist's proof.

Estimate
$5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for $5,334

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New York Auction 12 March 2024