Sophy Rickett (b. 1970)
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Sophy Rickett (b. 1970)

Untitled Landscape Part 7

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Sophy Rickett (b. 1970)
Untitled Landscape Part 7
signed, titled, numbered and dated 'West End farm 1998 Sophy Rickett 6/10' (on the reverse); signed, titled numbered and dated 'West End farm 1998 Sophy Rickett 6/10' (on the reverse to the mount)
c-print
image: 4¾ x 15½in. (12 x 393cm.)
sheet: 11¾ x 16in. (30.3 x 40.6cm.)
Executed in 1998, this work is number six from an edition of ten
Provenance
The Photographer's Gallery, London.
Private Collection, London.
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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Please note the title for this lot is Untitled Landscape Part 7

Please note the correct dimensions of this work are 12 x 39.3cm.

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Lot Essay

'Whilst unprepossessing in scale, Sophy Ricketts photographs have the ability to bewilder, their subject matter floating without context amidst black expanses. Indeed, the unerring flawlessness of these black areas, common to all the images, can enthral you with a tinge of delirium. Your spatial sensors are thwarted as the black backdrops subsume any detail that may offer evidence of perspective, for this is the darkest and smoothest black that a darkroom can elicit from light-sensitive paper. Furthermore, this blanket removal of references to pictorial space, and its relationship to the three-dimensional, imbues Ricketts views of nocturnal vistas with a tangible frisson of the night. Released from a dependence upon perspectives symbolic implications of a certain order, Ricketts images offer the possibility of another reality, one less grounded and fathomable. These are scenarios that could happily accommodate the wayward thoughts of the insomniac. As you peer into the darkness you hazard guesses as to the probable lie of the
land, and, more potently, to what may be lurking out there'
(I. Glover, Sophy Rickett, in frieze, Issue 60, June-August 2001)

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