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Ed Ruscha

American • b. 1937

Biography

Quintessentially American, Ed Ruscha is an L.A.-based artist whose art, like California itself, is both geographically rooted and a metaphor for an American state of mind. Ruscha is a deft creator of photography, film, painting, drawing, prints and artist books, whose works are simultaneously unexpected and familiar, both ironic and sincere.

His most iconic works are at turns poetic and deadpan, epigrammatic text with nods to advertising copy, juxtaposed with imagery that is either cinematic and sublime or seemingly wry documentary. Whether the subject is his iconic Standard Gas Station or the Hollywood Sign, a parking lot or highway, his works are a distillation of American idealism, echoing the expansive Western landscape and optimism unique to postwar America.

"I was pursuing this new frontier…I'd read about Los Angeles and this fact stuck in my mind: The city gained 1,000 new people everyday. In 1956! A thousand people everyday!…I want to be part of that."

Recent Ed Ruscha headlines, Powered by Articker

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23 September 2023 | Los Angeles Times 
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Baby, you can drive my car: Ed Ruscha's parking lots
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21 September 2023 | Artnet 
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Take a Closer Look at Ed Ruscha’s Seminal ‘Rooftops’ Works, Now Featured in Artnet Auctions’s Select Photographs Sale
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20 September 2023 | Financial Times 
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Ed Ruscha, MoMA — from explosive breakthrough to fizzling despair
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18 September 2023 | designboom 
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how did ed ruscha cover an entire room at the MoMA with chocolate?
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13 September 2023 | Juxtapoz Magazine 
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Observations After Seeing "ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN" @ MoMA

Upcoming Lots

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Metro Mattresses #2
Estimate £80,000 - 120,000
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Americana from Twentyfive Apartments
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
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Past Lots

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Atomic Facts
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $35,560
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Fruit Metrecal Hollywood (E. 53)
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000
Sold for £10,795
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America Whistles, from America: The Third Century (E. 84)
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000
Sold for £2,540
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Two Jumping Fish (E. 114)
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000
Sold for £3,810
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Here and Now
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $11,430
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128
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Various Small Fires; Some Los Angeles Apartments; Nine swimming pools; A Few Palm Trees; Colored People; and S Books (E. B2, B3, B8, B13 & B16)
Estimate $2,500 - 3,500
Sold for $5,715
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Paris Review
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000
Sold for £1,905
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Turbo Tears, from Tate Modern 21 Years Print Portfolio
Estimate £7,000 - 9,000
Sold for £7,620
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Dixie Red Seville
Estimate $2,500,000 - 3,500,000
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Manual Mobility
Estimate $4,000,000 - 6,000,000
Sold for $3,448,000
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Ghost Station
Estimate $30,000 - 50,000
Sold for $72,390
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Turbo Tears
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
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Blank Signs
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $10,795
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Sea of Desire (E. 141)
Estimate $12,000 - 18,000
Sold for $21,590
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The Fan and Its Surroundings, from The Global Edition (E. 123)
Estimate $2,500 - 3,500
Sold for $6,096
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Pepto-Caviar Hollywood (E. 42)
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $25,200
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Rodeo (T. 2531, E. 14)
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $15,120
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Turbo Tears, from Tate Modern 21 Years Print Portfolio
Estimate £7,000 - 9,000
Sold for £11,970
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Insect Slant (Ants), from Reality and Paradoxes (E. 69)
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000
Sold for £1,890
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195
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Big Dipper Over Desert (E. 131)
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000
Sold for £12,600
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197
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Paris Review
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000
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121
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Industrial Village and Its Hill
Estimate $400,000 - 600,000
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Gasoline Stations
Estimate $120,000 - 180,000
Sold for $138,600
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Sin (C. p. 338, E. 41)
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $13,860
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