Thomas Ruff's Queen in Car (2021) is a double-sided digital pigment print on cardboard that exemplifies the artist's sustained investigation into press photography, authorship, and the circulation of historical images. The signed artwork reproduces a newspaper photograph depicting Queen Elizabeth II alongside Prince Philip and Princess Margaret, isolating a moment of public visibility shaped by media framing and editorial selection.

The glossy recto presents the cropped press image as it would have appeared in print, while the matte verso reveals the reverse side of the source material, complete with editorial annotations, stamps, timestamps, and reproduction marks. By foregrounding these traces, Thomas Ruff redirects attention from the royal subject to the mechanics of image production. The photograph is no longer a neutral document but a constructed object shaped by institutional processes and systems of dissemination.

Published in 2021 in a limited edition of 30, Queen in Car is hand-signed and numbered on the verso by the artist. This double-sided photographic print stands as a significant example of Ruff's ongoing engagement with appropriated imagery and the politics of photographic representation.