Ed Ruscha - Contemporary Art Day Sale New York Friday, May 16, 2014 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Gagosian Gallery, New York
    James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica
    Collection of Douglas Cramer
    Christie's, New York, Post-War & Contemporary, November 15, 2012, lot 430
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Literature

    This work will be included in a forthcoming volume of Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper.

  • 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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Black and White Palette

1988
acrylic on paper
30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 61 cm.)
Signed and dated "Ed Ruscha '88" lower right; further titled "Black and White Palette" on the reverse.

Estimate
$45,000 - 65,000 

Sold for $52,500

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Contemporary Art Day Sale

New York 16 May 2014 11am