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Ruth Vance
Ruth Vance

Ruth Vance, 1929–2007. The estate holds the majority of the surviving work.

Series

1958–1979

Figures in Rooms

The format Vance arrived at in 1958 and did not leave: one body, one armature, one flat ground.

Left panel: a figure at the edge of a flat mustard ground, held by an open drawn cage.

Triptych, August 1974

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A small head, blurred as if turning, on a flat dioxazine violet ground with no surrounding structure.

Head VI

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A seated figure on a flat, chalky bruised-pink ground, the weave of unprimed linen visible through the paint.

Seated Figure, Study

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1980–2004

The Late Rooms

The grounds darken and the armature thins until, in several of the last paintings, it is drawn in the same colour as the ground.

A head on a near-black ground, the surrounding armature drawn in the same colour as the ground and barely visible.

Self-Portrait

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