Bijou Gets Undressed 2
Bijou Gets Undressed 2
Signed Print
Julian Opie
£7,500-£11,000 VALUE (EST.)
$14,000-$20,000 VALUE (EST.)
$12,500-$18,000 VALUE (EST.)
¥60,000-¥90,000 VALUE (EST.)
€8,500-€12,500 VALUE (EST.)
$70,000-$110,000 VALUE (EST.)
¥1,210,000-¥1,780,000 VALUE (EST.)
$9,500-$13,500 VALUE (EST.)
This estimate blends recent public auction records with our own private sale data and network demand.
Screenprint, 2004
Signed Print Edition of 30
H 38cm x W 78cm
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Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Artwork | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2023 | Phillips London - United Kingdom | Bijou Gets Undressed 2 - Signed Print | |||
| January 2020 | Phillips London - United Kingdom | Bijou Gets Undressed 2 - Signed Print |
Meaning & Analysis
Julian Opie’s print Bijou Gets Undressed 2 from his 2004 Bijou Gets Undressed series is a horizontal composition featuring a woman taking off a dress through a sequence of five static poses. The final pose shows the model topless, with her dress pulled down to her waist, thus this print is charged with an explicitly sexualised tone.
Dynamic in its sequential composition, Bijou Gets Undressed 2 utilises gestures and iconography typical of a strip show to create an image of a predetermined ‘type’, whilst also maintaining a sense of realism through movement. In using clear-cut outlines to depict the figure and a blank circle as her head, Opie anonymises the model, working to further emphasise this idea of the woman as ‘type’.
Never erasing the personality of his models, Opie highlights the particularities of an individual through the reduction of frivolous details and a focus on pose. At the same time, there is a utilitarian quality to Opie’s visual language through his use of simplified shape and form that create a system of signs. Opie cleverly confronts the viewer to think about how we perceive images of people and how we might relate to them by presenting them as familiar signs.
