Lot 143
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Katia Liebmann (b. 1965)
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Katia Liebmann (b. 1965)

Gotham City

Details
Katia Liebmann (b. 1965)
Gotham City
Van Dyke Brown photographs, in nine parts
each: 30 x 25in. (76.2 x 63.5cm.)
Executed in 1997, this work is from an edition of ten
Provenance
The Photographer's Gallery, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1998.
Exhibited
London, Saatchi Gallery, The New Neurotic Realism, 1998 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).
London, Saatchi Gallery, I Am a Camera, 2001, no. 111 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent. VAT rate of 20% is payable on hammer price and buyer's premium

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Lot Essay

'In 1997, Liebmann dressed in a cape and mask and roamed the streets of New York. As Batgirl, she appears in a series of her own photographs taken with a long-exposure camera. The sepia colour and unintentional camera tricks - double exposure, silhouetting, fish-eye perspective - make these photographs seem more like stills from early films, and hark back to the 1930s when Batman was invented' (Charlotte Mullins (ed.),Saatchi Gallery: Loan of Art, London, 2006, p. 198)

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