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This Is Shahnoza 2 - Signed Print by Julian Opie 2006 - MyArtBroker

This Is Shahnoza 2
Signed Print

Julian Opie

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57 x 136cm, Edition of 40, Screenprint

Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 40

Year: 2006

Size: H 57cm x W 136cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

Last Auction: June 2022

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Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
June 2022
Phillips London
United Kingdom
$7,500
$9,000
$11,500
March 2016
Sotheby's Online
United Kingdom
January 2015
Phillips London
United Kingdom
December 2011
Christie's London
United Kingdom
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Julian Opie's This Is Shahnoza 2, a screenprint from 2006, is currently estimated to be worth between £4,450 and £6,500. This signed artwork has an auction history of four total sales since its entry to the market on 7th December 2011. The average annual growth rate of this work is 4%. The hammer price over the past five years has ranged from £3,825 in August 2019 to £4,375 in November 2021. The edition size of this piece is limited to 40.

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Meaning & Analysis

Through a sequence of static poses that show the dancing figure moving around the pole, Opie creates a sense of movement within the image in a way that reflects movement in films. Opie orientates the figure’s head and body towards the viewer in order to suggest her awareness of being watched and makes clear that this sequence of movements is conforming to a particular performance tradition.

Rather than depicting someone to be recognised, the figure in This Is Shahnoza 2 is reduced to a ‘type’, presenting the viewer with a response to iconography found in the cultural mainstream that reflects the stereotypically ‘sexy’ woman. At the same time, Opie depicts the figure as always facing the viewer, and so by self-consciously subjecting herself to being looked at, she maintains her sovereignty over the desiring gaze and disrupts the expectations of the viewer.