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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."

Past Lots

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Ed Ruscha
Hollywood (E. 7)
Estimate $40,000 - 60,000
Sold for $48,260
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Fruit-Metrecal Hollywood (E. 53)
Estimate $12,000 - 18,000
Sold for $15,240
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Ed Ruscha
IF
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $25,400
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Ed Ruscha
Mysteries
Estimate $40,000 - 60,000
Sold for $44,450
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160
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Wall Rocket, from Mountain Prints
Estimate $30,000 - 50,000
Sold for $69,850
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161
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Sponge Puddle, from Mountain Prints
Estimate $30,000 - 50,000
Sold for $44,450
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162
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History Kids, from Mountain Prints
Estimate $30,000 - 50,000
Sold for $50,800
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Ed Ruscha
ME and THE
Estimate $1,200 - 1,800
Sold for $1,524
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393
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Section 22, from Gravure Group (E. 236)
Estimate $800 - 1,200
Sold for $2,032
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Ed Ruscha
Motor City
Estimate $12,000 - 18,000
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Gasoline Stations
Estimate $100,000 - 150,000
Sold for $133,350
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Vacant Lots
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $7,620
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Four works from the Rooftops series: (i) Roof Top View #2; (ii) Roof Top View #3; (iii) Roof Top View #4; (iv) Roof Top View #5
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $11,430
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Van Ness, Santa Monica, Vine, Melrose, from Why Draw a Landscape?
Estimate $6,000 - 9,000
Sold for $9,525
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252
Ed Ruscha
On the Road
Estimate £1,000 - 1,500
Sold for £889
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The End
Estimate £60,000 - 80,000
Sold for £127,000
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54
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Wen Out for Cigrets N Never Came Back
Estimate £60,000 - 80,000
Sold for £95,250
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Ed Ruscha
7101 Sepulveda Blvd, Van Nuys #20 from the series Parking Lots
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $4,826
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Ed Ruscha
So...[#1]
Estimate £60,000 - 80,000
Sold for £85,090
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162
Ed Ruscha
IS
Estimate $30,000 - 40,000
Sold for $69,850
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163
Ed Ruscha
3/4
Estimate $30,000 - 40,000
Sold for $40,640
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123
Ed Ruscha
Clock (E. 223)
Estimate $15,000 - 20,000
Sold for $25,400
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124
Ed Ruscha
1984 (G. 57, E. 6)
Estimate $15,000 - 25,000
Sold for $19,050
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Sin (E. 41, C. p. 338)
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $10,160
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