Wolfgang Tillmans - 20th Century & Contemporary Art: Online Auction New York Monday, July 17, 2023 | Phillips

20th Century & Contemporary Art: Online Auction

17 - 26 July 2023

  • Provenance

    Private Collection, New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • 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

Red Adidas

signed and numbered "Wolfgang Tillmans 50/100" on the underside of the box
chromogenic print in paper box
sheet 11 5/8 x 16 1/2 in. (29.5 x 41.9 cm)
box 16 5/8 x 12 3/4 x 1 1/8 in. (42.2 x 32.4 x 2.9 cm)
Executed in 2007, this work is number 50 from an edition of 100.

Estimate
$1,200 - 1,800 

Sold for $3,302

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20th Century & Contemporary Art: Online Auction

17 - 26 July 2023