Wolfgang Tillmans - Photographs New York Tuesday, October 1, 2019 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York

  • Literature

    Yale University Press, Wolfgang Tillmans, back cover, p. 143
    Hatje/Cantz, Wolfgang Tillmans, p. 292
    Hatje/Cantz, Wolfgang Tillmans: Lighter, p. 175, installation view

  • 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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himmelblau

2005
Chromogenic print.
24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm)
Signed, titled, numbered, inscribed and dated 'Wolfgang Tillmans, himmelblau, 1/3 + 1, photo 2005, print WT 04/2006' on the reverse.
Photographed in 2005 and printed in 2006, this work is number one from an edition of three plus one artist proof.

Estimate
$7,000 - 9,000 

Sold for $13,750

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New York Auction 1 October 2019