Name: Cornish Coast 2: Polridmouth Coast
Brand: Julian Opie
Rating: 4.9 (226 reviews)

Track auction value trend

The value of Julian Opie's Cornish Coast 2: Polridmouth Coast (signed) is estimated to be worth between £2,800 and £4,200. This digital print, created in 2017, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 4%. This work has a steady auction history, having been sold once at auction on 18th January 2023. The hammer price for this sale was £3,205. This artwork is rare, with an edition size of 20.

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January 2023

Phillips London - United Kingdom

Cornish Coast 2: Polridmouth Coast - Signed Print

Meaning & Analysis

Showing a highly abstract and minimalist view of a Cornish seascape, Cornish Coast 2: Polridmouth Coast is a digital print from Julian Opie’s Cornish Coast series from 2017. The print shows two strips of land and a body of water, rendered in block colours, simplified shapes and a minimal colour palette.

This print is created from photographs taken by the artist on holiday in Cornwall, later scanned and altered digitally. Opie’s Cornish Coast series is representative of the artist’s desire to repeat a single idea across an entire series in varying ways. This particular series takes a set of landscape images of Cornwall, each image repeated twice and all with similar titles, with the first half of the series showing the images in greater detail than the second half of the series.

Speaking of his interest in producing landscape prints of Cornwall, Opie has said: “I think we use picturing all the time in order to navigate and interact and it’s how I know I am present. By putting that picture back out into the world, on the cave wall or website or gallery, I can extend, record and play with what I see. By looking at that picture there is a doubling up of the process, a view of a view.”