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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Michèle Asprey Collection of Australian Contemporary Art
• Sale Date:
  10 Nov 2013 ~ 4pm
• Lot #:
  13
• Lot Description:
  Tracey Moffatt
  (Born 1960)
  Laudanum, #12, 1998
  photogravure on rag paper; edition 19/60
  plate size 29 x 65cm
  signed, titled, numbered and dated 98 in pencil to margin
• Provenance:
  Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
• Notes:
  Tracey Moffatt photogravure Laudanum #3 was featured in the monograph Tracey Moffatt 17-December 2003 - 29 February 2003, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Tracey Moffatt's 'Laudanum' series (1998) comprising 19 images, is an elaborate play which operates on many levels: there are references to film (especially Murnau's 'Nosferatu' 1922); to the 19th century when women used the opiate based laudanum as a calmative despite its undoubted addictive and hallucinatory effects; and to the history of photography itself through the use of photogravure. In making 'Laudanum', Moffatt shot the series at Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney and at a Georgian farm house north of Sydney. The negatives were then digitally re-mastered before being manually printed.
• Estimate:
  A$2,000 - 4,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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