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

Ruth Smoking 3
Signed Print

Julian Opie

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121 x 80cm, Edition of 50, Screenprint

Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 50

Year: 2006

Size: H 121cm x W 80cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

Last Auction: September 2020

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Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
September 2020
Sotheby's Online
United Kingdom
$4,950
$6,000
$7,500
June 2018
Phillips London
United Kingdom
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The value of Julian Opie's Ruth Smoking 3 (signed) is estimated to be worth between £3,750 and £5,500. This screenprint, created in 2006, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 2%. This work has an auction history of two sales since its initial sale on 6th June 2018. The hammer price over the past five years has ranged from £3,750 to £5,500. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 50.

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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.