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Distant Music Water Traffic - Signed Print by Julian Opie 2000 - MyArtBroker

Distant Music Water Traffic
Signed Print

Julian Opie

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Medium: Digital Print

Format: Signed Print

Year: 2000

Size: H 74cm x W 111cm

Edition size: 40

Signed: Yes

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The value of Julian Opie's Distant Music Water Traffic (signed) is estimated to be worth between £1,750 to £2,650. This digital print artwork has seen a total of 3 sales at auction since its first sale on 13th July 2010. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 40.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseArtwork
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
September 2018Sotheby's Online - United KingdomDistant Music Water Traffic - Signed Print
March 2018Sotheby's Online - United KingdomDistant Music Water Traffic - Signed Print
July 2010Bonhams New Bond Street - United KingdomDistant Music Water Traffic - Signed Print

Meaning & Analysis

Created from photographs taken by the artist, then scanned and altered digitally, this print is void of detail and simplified through the use of block flattened colour. Opie thus produces a generic image of the landscape that strikes a sense of familiarity within the viewer. Titling the images with descriptions of sounds he heard whilst taking the photographs, Opie explained "Things in my experience don’t look photographic. When I recall the things I did in a day, for example, it’s not as a series of photographs, high resolution pictures. It’s a series of images which resemble symbols and signs. It’s like another language."

In simplifying Distant Music Water Traffic from the original photograph, Opie both draws from his personal experience but depersonalises the image to allow the viewer to create their own unique interpretation. Much of Opie’s work has been compared to the digitally rendered landscapes of video games in the way that they mimic a simultaneously familiar yet otherworldly sphere.

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