Imagine You Are Driving at Day (7)

Details

Julian Opie (b. 1958)
Imagine You Are Driving at Day (7)
acrylic on wood, glass and aluminium
36 5/8 x 48 3/8 x 1 1/8in. (93 x 123 x 3cm.)
Executed in 1993

Provenance

Lisson Gallery, London.
Private Collection.

Literature

M. Horlock, Julian Opie, London, 2004 (p. 58-63).

Exhibited

Modena, Galleria Civica di Modena, Arte Inglese D'Oggi, 1995 (illustrated in colour, p. 50).

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.

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Lot Essay

'Opie's motorway paintings encapsulate the driving experience, yet seem inexplicably odd because they focus on that which is not to be focused on: the road as a place' (J. Roberts, 'Tunnel Vision', in frieze, May 1993, reproduced at https://www.frieze.com/issue/article/tunnel_vision/).

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