Lot 15: SOPHIE CALLE (B. 1953)

SOPHIE CALLE (B. 1953)
The Sleepers (Les dormeurs)
numbered (on the reverse of each print)
176 elements--ink on gelatin silver prints
24 elements--ink on paper
90 page manuscript--ink on paper
199 elements, each: 6 x 8 in. (15.2 x 20.3 cm.)
one element: 11 1/16 x 8 9/16 in. (28 x 21.7 cm)
manuscript, each sheet approximately: 11¾ x 8 3/8 in. (29.8 x 21.2 cm.)
Executed in 1979. This work is number one from an English edition of two. This work also exists in a French edition of two plus one artist's proof. (201)

ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, XI, Biennale de Paris, Manifestation internationale des jeunes artistes, 1980 (another example exhibited).
New York, Clocktower, Une I'dée en l'Air, 1980 (another example exhibited).
Geneva, Galerie Canon, Les Dormeurs, 1981 (another example exhibited).
Santa Monica, Fred Hoffman Gallery, Sophie Calle, July-September 1989, pp. 8, 12-17 and 57, no. 1 (illustrated).
Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Sophie Calle: A Survey, January-March 1990.
Berkeley, University of California, University Art Museum, Matrix/Berkeley 133: Sophie Calle, February-April 1990 (illustrated and on the cover).
ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Sophie Calle: á suivre, July-October 1991 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Minneapolis, Bockley Gallery, The Sleepers, Fall 1994 (another example exhibited).
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Sophie Calle: True Stories, February-May 1996, pp. 20-39 and 215 (illustrated).
Madrid, Centre Cultural Fundación la Caixa; Barcelona, Centre Cultural de la Fundación la Caixa and Granada, Palacio de los Condes, Relatos, December 1996-July 1997, pp. 32-46 and 114 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Seattle, Donald Young Gallery, The Sleepers, Suite Vénitienne, Birthday Ceremony, September-November 1997 (another example exhibited).
Musée National d'Art Moderne de Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou; Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art; Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau and Aachen, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Sophie Calle: M'as-Tu Vue?, November 2003-April 2005, pp. 21, 137, 143-154 and 433 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
London, Whitechapel Gallery, Sophie Calle: Talking to Strangers, October 2009-January 2010 (another example exhibited).

G. Jones, "Other People's Lives," Frieze, issue 3, January-March 1992.
L. Neri, "Sophie Calle," Interview, April 2009.
S. Jeffries, "Sophie Calle: Stalker, Stripper, Sleeper, Spy," Guardian, 23 September 2009.

Fred Hoffman Gallery, Santa Monica
Scott Spiegel, Los Angeles
Meryl Friedman, Santa Monica, by descent
Fred Hoffman Gallery, Santa Monica
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1999

SOPHIE CALLE (B. 1953)
The Sleepers (Les dormeurs)
numbered (on the reverse of each print)
176 elements--ink on gelatin silver prints
24 elements--ink on paper
90 page manuscript--ink on paper
199 elements, each: 6 x 8 in. (15.2 x 20.3 cm.)
one element: 11 1/16 x 8 9/16 in. (28 x 21.7 cm)
manuscript, each sheet approximately: 11¾ x 8 3/8 in. (29.8 x 21.2 cm.)
Executed in 1979. This work is number one from an English edition of two. This work also exists in a French edition of two plus one artist's proof. (201)