Sophie Calle valuation
French conceptual artist and photographer whose works pair images with her own texts.
Sophie Calle (born 1953) was born in Paris, the daughter of the collector Robert Calle.
What a work by Sophie Calle is worth
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Bio
Sophie Calle (born 1953) was born in Paris, the daughter of the collector Robert Calle. Her first artistic work, The Sleepers, invited passers-by to occupy her bed while she photographed them. In Suite Vénitienne (1979) she followed a man to Venice in disguise, and for The Hotel (1981) she worked as a chambermaid in a Venetian hotel and recorded what she found in the rooms. Address Book (1983) and Exquisite Pain followed, and at the 2007 Venice Biennale, where she represented France, she showed Take Care of Yourself, built from a breakup email that she asked other women to interpret. She received the Hasselblad Award in 2010.
What comes to market is photographs combined with framed texts, editioned works and artist's books. A work by Calle often has several parts, so a buyer will want to confirm that every image and text panel is present and that the framing is the one the artist specified. Edition number, certificate and gallery of origin all matter. Photographs should be checked for fading and surface marks, and text panels for discolouration.
At a glance
- Born
- 9 October 1953, Paris
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