Details
Jessica Craig-Martin (B. 1963)
Hamptons Cocktail Party, July 1998


cibachrome print, mounted on aluminium
24 x 36in. (61 x 91.5cm.)
Executed in 1998, this work is from an unnumbered edition of three plus one artist's proof
Provenance
Maureen Paley, Interim Art London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2000.
Literature
C. Saatchi, Saatchi Gallery: Loan of Art, London 2006 (illustrated in colour, p. 52).
Exhibited
London, Saatchi Gallery, I Am A Camera, 2001 (illustrated in colour, p. 32).
London, Saatchi Gallery, Black Mirror: Art as Social Satire, 2018-2019 (illustrated in colour, p. 30).
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Lot Essay

Jessica Craig-Martin lives a double life. In her day job, she snaps stars and influencers at glitzy parties as a professional photographer, and her images are published worldwide in the pages of magazines such as Vogue and Vanity Fair. In her more subversive artistic practice, however, she pictures the excess of this monied elite in photos that are rather too close for comfort. Tightly cropped, harshly lit and unforgiving, these images provide a humorously lurid (and carefully anonymised) glimpse beneath the immaculate sheen of high society. Zooming in on moments of debauchery and theatrical details of clothing, jewellery, and cosmetics, Craig-Martin undermines this rarefied world’s carefully constructed façade of glamour and sophistication.
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