Thomas Ruff Works Online
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Original works by Thomas Ruff available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Thomas Ruff at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Photograph collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
1 work online when last checked
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Portrait (R. Eisch), 1999
Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Torino, Italy
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "R"
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
Thomas Ruff in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Portrait
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French) 
w.h.s. 02, 2000
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Telefónica Foundation Collections, Madrid (in Spanish)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Deutsche Börse Group Art Collection, Frankfurt, Germany
The Sender Collection, New York
A private lending collection of Minimal and Conceptual Art
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UBS Financial Services Art Collection
Articles and Reference Sites:
Answers.com reference works 
See the "Photography Encyclopedia" entry, which is actually from The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (2005)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Frieze Magazine
Review (from issue 64): Thomas Ruff
Journal of Contemporary Art Online
Interview with the artist
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Tate Magazine
Surface Tension
The Brooklyn Rail
Interview with the artist
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
"The evil of banality", 2003 article by Adrian Searle
The Village Voice
"Ruff Trade", 2000 article by Jerry Saltz
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
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Thomas Ruff: Nudes
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