Sophie Calle is remembered for work the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Sophie Calle as French artist (born 1953).
Sophie Calle was born at Paris in 1953. Her recorded nationality is France.
Twentieth-century art was international, heavily theorised and increasingly conceptual, with the market growing alongside it.
She worked as photographer, visual artist and writer.
A painting outlives the argument about it, which is the only durable form of an artistic reputation.
That the work was made in France shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
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