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Ruth Smoking 4 - Signed Print by Julian Opie 2006 - MyArtBroker

Ruth Smoking 4
Signed Print

Julian Opie

£6,000-£9,500 VALUE (EST.)

$11,500-$18,000 VALUE (EST.)

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

¥50,000-¥80,000 VALUE (EST.)

7,000-11,000 VALUE (EST.)

$60,000-$90,000 VALUE (EST.)

¥1,040,000-¥1,650,000 VALUE (EST.)

$7,500-$11,500 VALUE (EST.)

-7% AAGR (5YR)

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Screenprint, 2006
Signed Print Edition of 50
H 121cm x W 85cm

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseArtwork
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
August 2020Wilson55 - United KingdomRuth Smoking 4 - Signed Print
January 2015Phillips London - United KingdomRuth Smoking 4 - Signed Print
March 2013Christie's London - United KingdomRuth Smoking 4 - Signed Print
March 2011Bonhams Knightsbridge - United KingdomRuth Smoking 4 - Signed Print

Meaning & Analysis

An important aspect for Opie in creating the commissioned portraits of Ruth, an art collector living in Geneva, was the fact that the sitter smoked and had long smooth hair. The element of smoking offered Opie the opportunity to animate this image with wisps of rising smoke in further iterations of the subject, thus allowing him to represent a sense of time through the static portrait.

Inspired by the woodblock prints of Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro, as well as early Renaissance painters such as Giovanni Bellini and Fra Angelico, Opie deliberately frames these images of Ruth as three-quarter length portraits to place his work in a historical, painterly context. In referencing historical, classic poses through the medium of computer drawing programmes and photography, Opie aims to distance model and viewer, placing the model in a fictional framework. This fictional role is then recognised as a type by the viewer, allowing for a multitude of interpretations.

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