Contemporary Photographs
Contemporary Photographs
Catherine Opie
'Nick'
Lot Closed
October 5, 06:06 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Catherine Opie
b. 1961
'Nick'
chromogenic print, flush-mounted, signed, titled, dated, and editioned '3/5' in ink on the reverse, framed, a Gorney Bravin + Lee gallery label on the reverse, 2003, printed in 2004
image: 30 by 23 ¾ in. (76.2 by 60.3 cm.)
frame: 31 by 24 ½ in. (78.7 by 62.2 cm.)
Jennifer Blessing and Nat Trotman, Catherine Opie: American Photographer (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2008), p. 206
Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, Catherine Opie: Surfers, April 2004
'Before I did the surfer portraits, I did the seascapes, and this may sound odd but I didn’t want them to be too pretty. And people kept telling me that the only people in my images were queer, so I wanted to ground the beauty of the seascape photographs back into the language of documentary. I brought my camera out onto the beach and asked the surfers when they were leaving the water if I could take their picture. I love this photo of Nick, whose chest almost matches the wax on the surfboard and the wild sweep of his hair.' (Catherine Opie quoted in '"I'll Make You Bigger Than Life": A Few of Catherine Opie's Favorite Portraits,' Interview Magazine, 25 June 2021)