'Thonet', from THONET 200 Project, 2019 – Thomas Ruff | Lot 39 – Design and Art from the Schellmann Collection

Lot: 39

Thomas Ruff
'Thonet', from THONET 200 Project, 2019

78 × 75 cm.
One digital pigment print (four motif images) on 500 g Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper.
Signed on the reverse: Ruff and numbered: 5/6. Copy 5 of 6 A.P. copies alongside an edition of 35 copies.

“Thomas Ruff has a worldwide reputation for his investigations into photography as a medium and its conditions. When I was working on the Thonet project, I asked him for a contribution. He used images from Thonet catalogs from the 1920s and transformed them through double exposure and placed the chair motif in the design style of the era.”

Estimate: 2,000 € - 2,500 €

176A - Design and Art from the Schellmann Collection
03. December 2024 at 4:00 PM CET

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Thomas Ruff'Thonet', from THONET 200 Project, 2019

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Thomas Ruff
'Thonet', from THONET 200 Project, 2019