Wolfgang Tillmans - Modern & Contemporary Art: Online Auction, London London Monday, June 24, 2024 | Phillips

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24 June - 3 July 2024

  • Provenance

    Maureen Paley, London
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    London, Maureen Paley, Wolfgang Tillmans, 9 June-7 August 2016 (another example exhibited)

  • Literature

    Theodora Vischer, ed., Wolfgang Tillmans, Basel, 2017, another example illustrated, p. 302 (another example illustrated, p. 184)
    Emma O'Kelly, 'Frieze London 2016 takes a nostalgic turn, as galleries look back to the Nineties', Wallpaper*, 17 October 2022, 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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Wolfgang Tillmans

Kleine Welle

signed, titled, numbered and dated 'Wolfgang Tillmans "Kleine Welle" PH 08/2015, PR WT 09/2017, 8/10 + 1' on the reverse
inkjet print, in artist's frame
frame 44.2 x 34 cm (17 3/8 x 13 3/8 in.)
Executed in 2015 and printed in 2017, this work is number 8 from an edition of 10 plus 1 artist's proof.

Estimate
£6,000 - 8,000 ‡♠

Sold for £15,240

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Modern & Contemporary Art: Online Auction, London

24 June - 3 July 2024