Lot 399 | Wolfgang Tillmans | Rain

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TILLMANS, WOLFGANG
1968 Remscheid

Title: Rain.
Date: 2006.
Technique: C-print.
Depiction Size: 199 x 135cm.
Sheet Size: 210 x 145cm.
Notation: Signed and numbered.
Number: 1/1 (+ 1 AP).
Frame: Artist's frame.

We are grateful to Studio Wolfgang Tillmans, Berlin, for their kind support.

Provenance:
- Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from the previous owner in 2010)

Exhibitions:
- Galerie Buchholz, Cologne 2007
- Kunstverein Munich, 2007 (different copy shown here)
- Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City 2008 (different copy shown here)
- Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2012 (different copy shown here)
- Manifesta 10, St. Petersburg 2014 (different copy shown here)
- TATE Modern, London 2017 (different copy here)
- Fragile, fA Africa Tour, 2018-2022 (different copy here)
- Museum of Modern Art, New York 2022 (different copy here)
- Yermilov Centre, Kharkiv 2025 (different copy here)
- Centre Pompidou, Paris 2025 (different copy here)

- Other prints of the motif can be found in important museum collections such as the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf and the Folkwang Museum, Essen
- The motif was part of major international Tillmans exhibitions such as in 2022 at MoMA, New York and in 2025 at the Centre Pompidou, Paris
- Highly aesthetic work that plays with the ambiguity of everyday life
- The seemingly banal is linked with emotional depth and intimacy

Contact:
Martina Janke
Modern, Post War & Contemporary Art
+49 221925862306

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Wolfgang Tillmans   Germany   Photographs   Contemporary Art   2000s   Artist's frame   Human   Photography   C-print  

Stock Id: 81351-113

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