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Ruth Smoking 3 - Signed Print by Julian Opie 2006 - MyArtBroker

Ruth Smoking 3
Signed Print

Julian Opie

£5,500-£8,500 VALUE (EST.)

$10,500-$16,000 VALUE (EST.)

$9,000-$14,000 VALUE (EST.)

¥50,000-¥70,000 VALUE (EST.)

6,500-10,000 VALUE (EST.)

$50,000-$80,000 VALUE (EST.)

¥960,000-¥1,480,000 VALUE (EST.)

$7,000-$10,500 VALUE (EST.)

3% AAGR (5YR)

This estimate blends recent public auction records with our own private sale data and network demand.

Screenprint, 2006
Signed Print Edition of 50
H 121cm x W 80cm

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseArtwork
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
September 2020Sotheby's Online - United KingdomRuth Smoking 3 - Signed Print
June 2018Phillips London - United KingdomRuth Smoking 3 - Signed Print

Meaning & Analysis

Amidst a contemporary world saturated with information, Opie presents us with an image stripped down to the bare minimum components that make up a portrait. Ruth Smoking is rendered in a decidedly depersonalised visual language. The element of smoking offered Opie the opportunity to animate this image with smoke in further iterations of the subject, thus allowing him to not represent a story but a sense of time through a static portrait.

Producing a computer generated image that uses flat, saturated colour and simplified shapes, Opie mimics the visual language of mass media and advertising. Ruth Smoking 3 also plays into this idea through depicting a stereotypical image of the ‘ideal’ woman as found in magazines, television and film. By rendering the figure with minimal facial features by which to determine who the sitter is, Opie forces the viewer to consider why they find this image so alluring and what constitutes attractiveness.

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