Zdzislaw Ruszkowski (1907-1991)

Oxford Street

Details

Zdzislaw Ruszkowski (1907-1991)
Oxford Street
signed 'Ruszkowski' (lower left)
oil on canvas
36½ x 42½ in. (92.6 x 108 cm.)
Painted in 1959.

Provenance

Purchased by Tom Laughton at the 1960 exhibition.
Robert Luff, Scarborough, from whom purchased by the present owner.

Literature

M. Simonow, The Paintings by Ruszkowski, London, 1982, pl. 15, illustrated.
M. Simonow, Ruszkowski: A Catalogue Raisonné of his Paintings, London, 1987, p. 137, no. 249, illustrated.

Exhibited

Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, The Second John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, November 1959 - January 1960, no. 63.
London, Leicester Galleries, Zdzislaw Ruszkowski, October - November 1960, no. 14.
Leeds, Leeds City Art Gallery, Retrospective Exhibition of Zdzislaw Ruskowski, October - November 1966, no. 55.

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Lot Essay

'A composition invented to express the bustling life of the street, based on the theme of rectangles. Here are two large rectangles, one consisting of the houses of the foreground and the further plane consisting of the street. The left rectangle is broken up into smaller rectangles of red buses and bluish cars. The triangle of the crowd is introduced on the pavement between the large rectangles. In the crowd itself, all the colours represented in the painting are repeated in small patches' (M. Simonow, Ruskowski, London, 1987, p.p. 137-138).

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