Ed Ruscha - Editions New York Wednesday, June 8, 2011 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Siri Engberg/Walker Art Center B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, B6, B8, B10, B12, B15 and M25

  • Catalogue Essay

    Including: Twentysix Gasoline Stations, 1963; Various Small Fires and Milk, 1964;Some Los Angeles Apartments, 1965;Every Building on the Sunset Strip, 1966;Thirtyfour Parking Lots in Los Angeles, 1967; Royal Road Test, 1967;Crackers,1969; Real Estate Opportunities, 1970;Records, 1971;and Edward Ruscha (Ed-werd Rew-shay) Young Artist, 1972

  • 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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[a group of eleven artist's books]

1963-1972
Eleven artist's books,
various sizes
nine from the first editions, all published by the artist, all generally in very good condition.

Estimate
$7,000 - 9,000 

Sold for $7,500

Editions

8 June 2011 New York