The ‘Paper drop’ series has booming popular recently. M sized work now fetches for more than £20,000 but in the past sold hardly at all whatsoever. In that sense it’s also interesting the extent to which photography competes with oil painting as a category of art.

Ultimately, what’s different if Tillman’s work reaches the same price as Gursky’s, or not? It’s interesting when you consider it from that perspective.

Wolfgang Tillmans

Paper drop (Haze)

Signed, titled, dated and numbered ‘Wolfgang Tillmans “Paper Drop-Haze” 2011 1/3+1’ on the reverse
Chromogenic print, 50 x 61 cm
Executed in 2011, this work is number 1 from an edition of 3, plus 1 artist’s proof.

SOLD FOR £ 21,250