Zdzislaw Ruszkowski (1907-1991)
Lot 56

Zdzislaw Ruszkowski (1907-1991)

Oxford Street

Closed14 July 2011

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GBP 6,250

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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.

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

Specialist note

'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).