Live Auction 708620th Century British Art
Zdzislaw Ruszkowski (1907-1991)
Lot 54

Zdzislaw Ruszkowski (1907-1991)

Anna in the Swimming Pool

Closed14 July 2011

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GBP 5,000

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Zdzislaw Ruszkowski (1907-1991)
Anna in the Swimming Pool
signed 'Ruszkowski' (lower right)
oil on canvas
36 1/3 x 28¼ in. (92.3 x 71.7 cm.)
Painted in 1953.

Tom Laughton.
Robert Luff, Scarborough, from whom purchased by the present owner.

Specialist note

The artist's daughter comments that the present work has 'me standing on the edge of the pool (Finchley Road Baths), plaits tied on top of my head. This is one of the first paintings to show what would become a lifetime obsession with water, the conjunction of the shimmering surface appearance and the fracturing of objects seen below the surface' (private correspondence, 2 June 2011).