Lot 129
  • 129

Julian Opie

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Julian Opie
  • This is Monique. 24
  • signed on the reverse

  • silkscreen on painted wooden board

  • 90 by 50cm.; 35 1/2 by 19 3/4 in.
  • Executed in 2004.

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the background tends more towards sky blue in the original. The illustration also fails to convey the glossy texture of the surface of the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition.
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Catalogue Note

The ICA presented a major exhibition of the work of Julian Opie in
1985. The artist also featured in the ICA exhibitions William Morris
Today,
1984, The Institute of Cultural Anxiety, 1994-95, Surfacing, 1998 and The Secret Public, 2007.

Opie's donation for the ICA 60th anniversary auction is This is
Monique. 24
, 2004. This piece is one of many by the artist which
depict the eponymous subject, a business woman and art collector
from Switzerland. Throughout his practice Opie has developed his
own reductive formal language, seeking to reflect not reality itself,
but rather the way in which reality is represented, drawing from
influences as diverse as billboard signs and classical sculpture.