Lot 2039
Laurie Simmons (American, b. 1949), Tourism: Chartres
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Image size 18 x 12 in.; Frame dimensions 27 3/4 x 21 in.
Private Collection, Greensboro, North Carolina
Laurie Simmons is an American photographer, filmmaker, and conceptual artist whose work explores identity, gender roles, and the construction of domestic life through carefully staged scenes. A graduate of the Tyler School of Art, she emerged in the late 1970s as a member of the influential Pictures Generation, creating iconic photographs featuring dolls, miniature interiors, puppets, and mannequins that challenge conventional ideas of femininity and representation.
Simmons has exhibited extensively in the United States and internationally, with major retrospectives at the Jewish Museum in New York and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark. Her work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Tate Modern.
Light toning to the sheet, not examined outside the frame.
