The World's Largest Modern & Contemporary Prints & Editions Platform
Watching Suzanne (back) 3 - Signed Mixed Media by Julian Opie 2006 - MyArtBroker

Watching Suzanne (back) 3
Signed Mixed Media

Julian Opie

Price data unavailable

AAGR (5 years) 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: Mixed Media

Edition size: 25

Year: 2006

Size: H 83cm x W 56cmx D 3cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Mixed Media

Find out how Buying or Selling works.
Track this artwork in realtime

Watch artwork, manage valuations, track your portfolio and return against your collection

Meaning & Analysis

Using photography and digital technology to produce these prints, Opie’s Watching Suzanne series combines the personal and the impersonal in his depiction of the human form. Reducing this figure to its most essential shapes and lines, Opie strives to form a universal mode of expression as a means to fully grasp reality. In creating depersonalised signs out of photographs of real people, Opie provides the viewer with space to project their own emotions and experiences onto this image.

Opie’s desire to achieve a universal form of realism in Watching Suzanne (Back) 3 is also made clear by his endless repetition and variation on the same subject across an entire series. Since the mid-1990s, Opie has explored the principles of modular variation across artistic media and art historical genres. The artist’s Watching Suzanne consists of prints with similar titles and with the same vertical composition showing the cropped image of the woman’s body, each print showing her in a different position.

  • Julian Opie, born in 1958, dances through the contemporary art scene with a distinctive digital allure. A trailblazer of the 1980s New British Sculpture movement, Opie's work is a highly stylised blend of Pop Art and minimalism which navigates the intersection of technology and visual expression. From his early experiments with computer-generated art to his iconic portraits and animated installations, Opie's work exudes a captivating simplicity. His signature style, marked by bold lines and reduced forms, is internationally recognisable and has made him a key player in British contemporary art.