Katia Liebmann

Katia Liebmann (b. 1965) Gotham City Van Dyke Brown photographs, in nine parts each: 30 x 25in. (76.2 x 63.5cm.) Executed in 1997, this work is from an edition of ten The Photographer's Gallery, London. Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1998. London, Saatchi Gallery, The New Neurotic Realism, 1998 (illustrated in colour, unpaged). London, Saatchi Gallery, I Am a Camera, 2001, no. 111 (illustrated in colour, unpaged). 'In 1997, Liebmann dressed in a cape and mask and roamed the streets of New York. As Batgirl, she appears in a series of her own photographs taken with a long-exposure camera. The sepia colour and unintentional camera tricks - double exposure, silhouetting, fish-eye perspective - make these photographs seem more like stills from early films, and hark back to the 1930s when Batman was invented' (Charlotte Mullins (ed.),Saatchi Gallery: Loan of Art, London, 2006, p. 198)

Katia Liebmann (German, b.1965) Gotham City Van Dyke print 30¼ x 24¼ in. (76 x 62 cm.) From an edition of 10. A set of four. (4) Artist's Resale Right ("droit de Suite"). If the Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer also 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. VAT rate of 20% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium with The Photographers' Gallery, London

c,m - KATIA LIEBMANN (XX) - GOTHAM CITY
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each signed. titled, dated 1997 and numbered 4/10 on the reversefour sepia toned printsQuantity: 4

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The Photographer's Gallery, London