James

Details

Catherine Opie (B. 1961)
James
signed and titled ‘Catherine Opie James’ (on the reverse)
chromogenic print on card
image: 19 ¼ x 15 ¼in. (48.8 x 38.8cm.)
sheet: 19 5/8 x 15 3/8in. (50.1 x 39cm.)
Executed in 1993, this work is from an edition of eight

Provenance

Galerie Philomene Magers, Cologne/Munich.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Exhibited

Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Das achte Feld - Geschlechter, Leben und Begehren in der Bildenden Kunst seit 1960, 2006 (illustrated in colour, p. 70).

Lot Essay

‘The S&M community was a very important part of my life through the 90s and I chose to photograph it because I didn’t like the way it was being represented. Often, when I make things it’s in relationship to creating a representation of that, that I feel needs to be in the world’ (C. Opie, quoted in, A. Blanch, ‘Catherine Opie Interview’, in Musee Magazine, reproduced at https://museemagazine.com/art-2/features/catherine-opie-interview/).

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