Catherine Opie - Art for One Drop New York Friday, September 21, 2018 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Courtesy of the Artist, Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong, and Regen Projects, Los Angeles. Frame donated by Art Services Melrose, Los Angeles.

  • Catalogue Essay

    American fine-art photographer, Catherine Opie, lives and works in Los Angeles. Opie is a tenured professor of photography at the University of California, Los Angeles and has received numerous awards capturing often overlooked aspects of contemporary American life and culture. As one of the most important photographers of her generation, her photographic subjects have included early seminal portraits of the LGBTQ community, the architecture of Los Angeles' freeway system, mansions in Beverly Hills, Midwestern icehouses, high school football players, California surfers, and abstract landscapes of National Parks, among others.

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Surfer for One Drop

pigment print
56 x 42 in. (142.2 x 106.7 cm.)
Executed in 2018.

Estimate
$80,000 - 120,000 

Sold for $264,000

Contact Specialist
Sam Mansour
Head of Sale
+1 212 940 1219
smansour@phillips.com

Art for One Drop

New York Charity Auction 21 September 2018