Ed Ruscha - Contemporary Art Part II New York Friday, May 14, 2010 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Gagosian Gallery, London

  • Artist Biography

    Ed Ruscha

    American • 1937

    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.

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Property from the Halsey Minor Collection

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Busted Glass #8

2007
Acrylic on museum board paper.
12 1/4 x 9 1/4 in. (31.1 x 23.5 cm).
Signed and dated "Ed Ruscha 2007" lower right. This work is registered under the artist's studio number D.2007.82.

Estimate
$30,000 - 50,000 

Sold for $56,250

Contemporary Art Part II

14 May 2010
New York