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Wednesday 11 October 2023, 03:30 PM • Milan

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Yasumasa Morimura

(1951)

The Opera (Le Nozze di Figaro), 2000/2002

Estimate

€ 800 - 1.200

Sold

€ 774

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Vintage C-print mounted on passepartout
cm 21,3 x 16,3 (cm 14,9 x 11,4 picture) | 8.4 x 6.4 in. (5.8 x 4.5 in. picture)

Edition 9 of 20

Signed, dated and numbered in black ink on the verso

Framed


Provenance

Soh Gallery, Tokyo
Ironic, irreverent, but always elegant in his citations of pop culture and beyond, Yasumasa Morimura is at the same time the protagonist of very accurate mise en scene that reconstruct movements, types, costumes as well as the photographer who portrays them. Although technically self-portraits, these photographs seem rather to fall into the typology of a sophisticated body art that loses all biting provocation and prefers instead to play with stereotypes.