Photo © Phillips — view this lot on Phillips ↗Venus #2, 2006
Photograph · ed. 9/10
Phillips · Oct 12, 2022$15,120 ≈ £13,683 ≈ €15,578Sign up free to see price
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World #1
Ruud van Empel (Dutch, b. 1958) · 2005
£43,750 price realized incl. premium
≈ $55,724≈ €47,898
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- Medium
- Photograph · Photography all photograph results →As published: “Dye destruction print, face-mounted and mounted”
- Edition
- 3/9
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed in pencil
- Category
- Photographs
- Dimensions
- 150 x 105.5 cm (59 x 41 1/2 in.)
- Auction house
- Phillips
- Sale
- Photographs (UK040120)
- Date
- September 25, 2020
- Location
- London
- Lot
- 3
- Estimate
- £30,000 – £50,000 (≈ $38,211 – $63,685) (≈ €32,844 – €54,740)
- Source
- Auction house phillips.com ↗Retrieved Sep 27, 2026
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