MIRROR WITH A MEMORY: MOTEL ROOM, 1977

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
26 November 2024
27

CAROL JERREMS

(1949 – 1980)
MIRROR WITH A MEMORY: MOTEL ROOM, 1977

C-type photograph

23.0 x 17.5 cm

edition: 1/9

signed, dated, numbered and inscribed with title below image: MIRROR WITH A MEMORY: MOTEL ROOM 1/9 JERREMS, 1977

signed, dated, numbered and inscribed with title verso:  "Mirror with a memory: motel room" / 1/9 /  Carol Jerrems 1977

Estimate: 
$25,000 – $35,000
Sold for $63,818 (inc. BP) in Auction 80 - 26 November 2024, Melbourne
Provenance

Dr Jonn Mumford, New South Wales, acquired directly from the artist in 1978
Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney
Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited

Living in the 70s: Photographs by Carol Jerrems, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 20 July – 12 August 1990, then touring to: Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, 24 August – 30 September 1990; Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 23 February – 12 May 1991; Albury Regional Centre, New South Wales, 24 May – 23 June 1991; Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria, 29 June – 28 July 1991; The Exhibition Gallery, The Waverley Centre, Melbourne, 4 August – 15 September 1991 (another example)
Mirror with a Memory: Photographic Portraiture in Australia, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, 4 March – 12 June 2000 (another example)
Up Close: Carol Jerrems with Larry Clark, Nan Goldin and William Yang, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 31 July – 31 October 2010 (another example)
Legacy. Your collection. Our Story, Museum of Australian Photography, Melbourne, 15 June – 19 September 2018 (another example)

Literature

Ennis, H., and Jenyns, B., Living in the 70s: Photographs by Carol Jerrems, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1990, n.p.
Schwarz, K., 'Girl in a Mirror', Art and Australia, vol. 43, no. 2, Summer 2005, p. 245 (illus., another example)
King, N. (ed.), Up Close: Carol Jerrems with Larry Clark, Nan Goldin and William Yang, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne and Schwartz City, Melbourne, 2010, pp. 142 (illus.), 143, 240
Conrad, P., 'The faith of images', The Monthly, 1 October 2010 (illus.), https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2010/october/1285813730/peter-conrad... (accessed October 2024)