Photo © Rago Auctions — view this lot on Rago Auctions ↗Interiors (Interieurs) (set of three), 1988
Photograph
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Selected Porträts (Portraits)
Thomas Ruff (German, b. 1958) · 1984-1988
$8,890 price realized incl. premium
≈ £6,972≈ €8,445
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- Medium
- Photograph · Photography all photograph results →As published: “Three chromogenic prints”
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed and dated in pencil on the verso
- Category
- Photographs
- Dimensions
- Each 9 1/2 x 7 1/8 in. (24.1 x 18.1 cm)
- Auction house
- Phillips
- Sale
- Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation: Online Auction (NY040424)
- Date
- December 10, 2024
- Location
- New York
- Lot
- 14
- Estimate
- $3,000 – $5,000 (≈ £2,353 – £3,921) (≈ €2,850 – €4,750)
- Source
- Auction house phillips.com ↗Retrieved Sep 26, 2026
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