Nudes ik 01

Name: THOMAS RUFF (B. 1958)
Brand: Nudes ik 01
Price: 15000.00 GBP
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Price Realised GBP 18,750

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Closed: 11 Apr 2019

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THOMAS RUFF (B. 1958)

Nudes ik 01

Price Realised GBP 18,750

Closed: 11 Apr 2019

Price Realised GBP 18,750

Closed: 11 Apr 2019

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THOMAS RUFF (B. 1958)
Nudes ik 01
signed, titled, numbered and dated ‘ik 01 Th Ruff 2009 3/5’ (on the reverse); signed, titled, numbered and dated ‘ik 01 Th Ruff 2009 3/5’ (on the backing board)
chromogenic print face-mounted to acrylic, in artist's frame
image: 35⅜ x 52in. (90 x 132cm.)
overall: 43½ x 60⅝in. (110.4 x 154.1cm.)
Executed in 2009, this work is number three from an edition of five

Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Istanbul, Galerist, Thomas Ruff, 2010 (another from the edition exhibited).

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Lot Essay

‘When I started, it was just an investigation into the history of photography — there wasn’t any social context I was interested in or aware of — and nude photographs are a very important genre. I had my first Macintosh and access to the internet, so I started my research — and who shows up? Helmut Newton, Peter Lindbergh. And I thought, oh, this is really a 19th-century male look at the female body, not very interesting. So I typed in ‘sex’ and then ‘fetish’ and suddenly those teaser pages on the porn pages showed up and I thought, woah, what’s that? And — not all, but a lot of them, were much more honest than the artistic nude photographs I had seen so far. But they were thumbnails, very small. I had already started investigating the structure of the digital image and I realised that if you calculate those files in a higher size and you shift the pixels, then it becomes kind of painterly’

-Thomas Ruff
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