Auction of 1992 shot could fetch Vancouver photographer over $1 million
The Canadian master of contemporary photography, Jeff Wall, whose carefully composed scenes exhibit a deceptive ordinariness but tap deep wells of thought in art and philosophy, is set to crack the million-dollar mark again at a New York auction next month with a 1992 picture of a fellow artist sketching a cadaver’s forearm.
The large, 1.2-x-1.6-metre image, widely viewed as a masterpiece of modern art and hailed as a photographic “tour de force” by the auction house Christie’s, carries one of Wall’s typically banal titles: “Adrian Walker, artist, drawing from a specimen in a laboratory in the Dept. of Anatomy at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.”
But if the photograph fetches a price much beyond the high-end estimate of $1.2 million, it will set a new sales record for an artist who once drew freelance illustrations for the Vancouver Sun at $15 or $20 a pop.
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