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Ruud van Empel is a Dutch photographer who was born in 1958. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Rijksmuseum Amsterdam have featured Ruud van Empel's work in the past.Ruud van Empel's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 100 USD to 126,168 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2007 the record price for this artist at auction is 126,168 USD for Boy & Girl, sold at Phillips London in 2015. In the past 12 months, his photographs have averaged 9,235 USD.Ruud van Empel has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for ArtDaily in June 2023.
From 29 June to 3 September 2023, works from Jacquie Maria Wessels' analogue photo series Garage Stills will be on show at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (NL) in the group exhibition New Horizons.
Long sold out and appearing at auction for the first time, World #1 is the work that led Ruud van Empel to focus on black children as his long-term subject and set off his seminal World series.
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..Widely recognized and best known for his carefully constructed photo-collages of children in mysterious and otherworldly paradises, his images draw the viewer into a place that is simultaneously illusory...
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..What is real and what isn鈥檛? And is it all quite as endearing as it appears at first sight? This aspect gives the work of Ruud van Empel a fascinating depth, in addition to the enormous spread of colour...
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