Lot  037 Ravenel Spring Auction 2019

Ravenel Spring Auction 2019

Delusionville Guernica

Ron ENGLISH (American, 1959)

2018

Acrylic on canvas

103.5 x 226.5 cm

Estimate

TWD 1,400,000-2,000,000

HKD 357,000-510,000

USD 45,600-65,100

CNY 307,000-439,000

Sold Price


Signature

Signed lower right English

+ OVERVIEW

This lot 037, Delusionville-Guernica, is one of the series Delusionville by Ron English. Delusionville is a underground virtual world, that represent different class of human in the reality society by different animals. The pig represents the banker, the turtle is the science inventor, and the duck symbolizes the doctor etc. English, who also loves the music, even writes theme songs for the Delusionville series with other pop musicians, telling stories happening in this town. This work was inspired by Pablo Picasso's masterpiece Gernica, which can be regarded as a wonderful work of crossgeneration art world.
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Ravenel Spring Auction 2019

Saturday, June 1, 2019, 2:00pm