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Loretta Lux (GERMAN, 1969) Study of a Girl 2 Ilfochrome print 2002 Dimensions: 11 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches (30 x 30 cm) Signed, titled and dated in pencil, verso Numbered 11/20 in pencil, verso Framed and matted In overall good condition Contact department for full condition report Dresden-born Loretta Lux has created an extensive, internationally-collected body of work over the last decade. Her photographs, primarily of children and adolescents, are formal, mesmerizing, and surreal. The artist, originally trained as a painter, creates her work much as an artist layers oil on a canvas; her photographs are combined with layers of painting and digital manipulation. Models, props, costumes and backdrops are all carefully chosen, and many times the props will carry symbolic meaning akin to Old Master paintings. With the model isolated in front of a simplified background cleared of visual clutter and the clothing from a not-so-distant past, the subjects resemble dolls. These images at once reflect a childhood we remember and a childhood found only in storybooks. Loretta Lux (GERMAN, 1969) Loretta Lux was born in Dresden in 1969 and currently lives and works in Monoco. Solo exhibitions of Lux's work have been organized by Stadtmuseum in Muenster (2003), Fotomuseum den Haag in The Hague (2005), Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey (2008), and Kulturhuset in Stockholm (2009). Her work can be found in the Art Institute of Chicago, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Photo Museum Munich, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Getty Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Guggenheim, and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris. In 2005 she received the Infinity Award for Art from The International Center of Photography in New York.