Lot 214: Muazez

Céline van Balen (DUTCH, B. 1965)
Muazez
cibachrome print on aluminium, 1998, signed and dated in pen on label on the verso, numbered 1/6.
1460 x 1200 mm.

Rotterdam, Nederlands Foto Instituut, Human Conditions, Intimate Portraits, 18 December - 21 January 2004-05.

R. Campert & W. van Zoetendaal, Céline van Balen, Amsterdam 2002, p. 36 (another print ill.)
Exh.cat. Rotterdam, Nederlands Foto Instituut, Human Conditions, Intimate Portraits, 18 December 2004 - 21 January 2004-05, p.031 (another print ill.)

Van Zoetendaal Galerie, Amsterdam

Christie’s charges a premium to the buyer on the Hammer Price of each lot sold at the following rates: 29.75% of the Hammer Price of each lot up to and including €5,000, plus 23.8% of the Hammer Price between €5,001 and €400,000, plus 14.28% of any amount in excess of €400,000. Buyer’s premium is calculated on the basis of each lot individually.
In 1989 Céline van Balen made a striking series of colour portraits of young islamic girls with a hijab, girls whom encountered on the street in the neighbourhood where she lived. Her large format black and white photographs have the fascinating aura of some 19th Century photographic portraits. In making portraits, Céline van Balen proceeds on the basis of her intuition. She chooses people whom she finds striking, who are unusual. (F. Gierstberg & F. Wildschut, Human Conditions, Intimate Portraits, exh.cat, Rotterdam 1999, p. 030)