Luc And Ludivine Get Married. (pair 06)
Luc And Ludivine Get Married. (pair 06)
Signed Print
Julian Opie
POA
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Digital Print, 2007
Signed Print Edition of 10
H 40cm x W 45cm
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Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Artwork | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2020 | Phillips London - United Kingdom | Luc And Ludivine Get Married. (pair 06) - Signed Print |
Meaning & Analysis
Featuring two individual portraits of a man and a woman, Luc And Ludivine Get Married (pair 06) is a mixed media piece from Julian Opie’s 2007 series Luc And Ludivine Get Married. Presented in elliptical frames and blown domed glazing, the work is produced from cut black and white paper laminated together.
At first glance, these portraits are distinctly modern in their use of simplified and abstracted forms but Opie synthesises this with the composition and form inspired by 19th century silhouette portraiture. Throughout his artistic oeuvre Opie has taken inspiration from ancient Egyptian and Roman art, and Dutch and British painted portraits of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japanese prints, and the symbolic language of modern signage.
Opie shows the portraits of the both the male and female figures in profile, facing the same direction and turned to the right. Typical of many of Opie’s portraits, Luc And Ludivine Married (pair 06) is rendered with the absolute minimum by which a person can be represented. Reduced to black and white bold lines, the images show the figures with dots for eyes and simple lines for their mouth.
