Wolfgang Tillmans - 20th Century to Now London Friday, June 30, 2023 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Galerie Buchholz, 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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Indian Corn & Pomme Granate​

signed and numbered 'Wolfgang Tillmans 1/1 + 1' on an artist's label affixed to the reverse
c-print, mounted on Dibond, in artist's frame
212.1 x 144.9 cm (83 1/2 x 57 in.)
Executed in 1994, this work is number 1 from an edition of 1 plus 1 artist's proof.

Estimate
£30,000 - 50,000 ‡♠

Sold for £76,200

Contact Specialist

Leonor de Osma
Head of Sale, 20th Century to Now
T +44 20 7901 7912
M +44 7584 086 052
ldeosma@phillips.com

20th Century to Now

London Auction 30 June 2023