Online - Modern and Contemporary Art Thomas Ruff 13h 36m / -35°. 2002. Colour offset lithograph on coated strong offset paper. 80 x 53 cm (100 x 70 cm). Signed in fibre pen and typographically inscribed in lower margin. - Sporadically with small, barely noticeable handling creases. Overall very good and exceptionally fine. Splendid, deep black and finely nuanced impression. Schellmann 19, ill. p. 40 (for the original in granolithography). - The print shows a reduced version of Ruff's C-print of the same name in 2 copies from 1992, which in turn is based on the 8-part series of granolithographs from 1989-91 entitled "Sterne". "Since his own photographic equipment was not good enough to take precise pictures, and the air and light pollution over Europe prevented him from seeing more than a fraction of the available stars, he (Ruff) decided to work with copies from the 600 negative archive of the European Southern Observatory (ES)." (Schellmann) - Published by Edition 5 in 2002. Colour offset lithograph on coated thick offset paper. Signed with ball-point pen and with typographical annotations in the bottom margin. - Occasionally with barely visible traces of handling. Splendid, finely nuanced impression with deep, almost shining black. - Reduced depiction of Ruff's c-print from 1992 with the same name. Published by Edition 5 in 2002. 400