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THOMAS RUFF (B. 1958)
5 Portraits (Karin Kneffel, J. Röing, A. Kachold, Peter Maertin, Pia Stadtbaümer)
each: signed and numbered '7/12 Thomas Ruff' (on the reverse)
each: dye transfer in brown cardboard portfolio, in five parts
each: 1458 x 1134in. (37 x 30cm.)
Executed in 1989, this work is number seven from an edition of twelve plus four artist's proofs
Provenance
Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist).
Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 1993.
Literature
M. Winzen (ed.), Thomas Ruff: 1979 to the Present, Cologne 2001.
J. Schellmann (ed.), Thomas Ruff / Editions. Catalogue Raisonné 1988 - 2014, Copenhagen 2005, no. 4-8.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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