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| Artist | Catherine Yass (Born 1963) |
| Title | Observatory |
| Date | 2000 |
| Medium | Colour transparency and light-box |
| Dimensions | height: 97.30 cm, width: 134.00 cm, depth: 12.70 cm |
| Acquisition | Commissioned from the artist, July 2000 |
| Location | Germany, Berlin, British Embassy |
| GAC number | 17496 |
Other works by this artist
 | Stage | Screenprint 1997 GAC 17268/11 |
 | Grave (Annae Craig) | Colour transparency and light-box 1997 GAC 17269 |
 | Embassy (day) | Colour transparency and light-box 1999 GAC 17376 |
 | Embassy (evening) | Colour transparency and light-box 1999 GAC 17377 |
 | Pavilion | Colour transparency and light-box 2000 GAC 17514 |
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Catherine Yass produced "Observatory" and another work, "Pavilion", for the British Embassy in Berlin. Its subject is the Einstein Tower in Berlin, designed by Erich Mendelsohn in 1920. This photographic image was taken through a mirror, looking up through a series of lenses inside the tower. Yass has commented on how this image is like the camera's self-portrait, with one mechanism looking at another. The heightened, intense colours of her works are produced by superimposing positive and negative transparencies onto one another and making tonal adjustments during the printing process. Catherine Yass was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2002.
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topography
 | Greenwich Hospital | Oil on panel c.1750 GAC 0/3 |
 | Battlefields of Britain | Oil on canvas 1942 GAC 0/5 |
 | Lakeside Scene in the Caucasian Mountains | Oil on canvas 1935 GAC 0/11 |
 | William Pitt (1759-1806) | Mezzotint published 1 September 1799 GAC 0/20/22 |
 | Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (1757-1844) | Mezzotint published May 1802 GAC 0/20/23 |
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