Running Women
Running Women
Signed Print
Julian Opie
Price data unavailable
This estimate blends recent public auction records with our own private sale data and network demand.
There aren’t enough data points on this work for a comprehensive result. Please speak to a specialist by making an enquiry.
Medium: Screenprint
Format: Signed Print
Year: 2016
Size: H 153cm x W 156cm
Edition size: 50
Signed: Yes
MyPortfolio
Your colletion tracked in realtime.
Build your portfolio, manage valuations, view return against your collection and watch works you're looking for.
Track auction value trend
The value of Julian Opie's Running Women (signed) is estimated to be worth between £14,000 to £21,000. This screenprint artwork has had one sale at auction since its creation in 2016. The hammer price was £15,748 on 23rd January 2019, providing the seller with an average return of £13,386. The first and only sale at auction was in 2019. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 50.
Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Artwork | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2019 | Phillips London - United Kingdom | Running Women - Signed Print |
Meaning & Analysis
Depicted in the artist’s characteristic graphic visual language, Running Women is a screen print by Julian Opie from his Runners series (2016). Showing five full-length profiles of women running in varying directions, Opie renders the figures with featureless faces and brightly coloured, branded sports clothing.
Opie created this series from a selection of photographs and film, shot by two of his assistants in public, where many people were running past the camera. This allowed Opie to produce a dynamic image with a variety of people, each uniquely distinguishable due to the artist’s attention to detail with clothing and each person’s gate. Throughout his career, Opie has been fascinated by the human body, producing many full-length images of people in mid-movement such as his Walking In The Rain series from 2015.
Opie situates this print in the 21st century due to his astute attention to detail in clothing and technology. At the same time, Running Women is representative of the way in which Opie combines the vernacular of the everyday with the canonical style of art history. Of this print Opie has said, “I was thinking of the striding athletes circling ancient Greek vases, and of stone-carved Roman friezes of battling warriors.”
