Lot 30
  • 30

Sterling Ruby

Estimate
70,000 - 100,000 EUR
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Description

  • Sterling Ruby
  • Alabaster SR08-9
  • titled on the reverse
  • acrylic in artist's frame
  • 115,5 x 238 cm; 45  1/2  x 93  11/16  in.
  • Executed in 2008.

Provenance

Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Bruxelles
Collection Alain & Candice Fraiberger (acquired from the above in June 2009)

Literature

Exh. Cat., Bergame, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Sterling Ruby, 2008-2009, pp. 122, 123, illustrated in colour

Condition

The colours are fairly accurate in the catalogue illustration, although the colours in the original work are softer and the undertones are less orange. This work is in very good condition.
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Catalogue Note

"My generation is going through this dilemma of how beauty is prescribed. There's this kind of aesthetic of degradation, or deterioration as a type of beauty. Like an entropic beauty. That's perhaps very gothic or very baroque, to a certain extent. But it's also a type of formalism or a type of negation on all of these different things that have happened prior to here and now."
Sterling Ruby