Ed Ruscha - Editions and Works on Paper Including Works from the Piero Crommelynck Collection New York Tuesday, April 18, 2017 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Siri Engberg 60-65

  • Catalogue Essay

    Titles include: Flies; Black Ants; Swarm of Red Ants; Red Ants; Cockroaches and Pearl Dust Combination
    The dirt in these boxes comes from Ruscha's elementary school playground in Oklahoma City.

  • 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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Insects

1972
The complete set of six screenprints in colors, three on paper-backed wood veneer and three on Fabriano paper, the full sheets, with title page/justificaftion, the sheets loose (as issued), contained in the original raw linen-covered portfolio with plastic cover encapsulating brownish-red sand.
portfolio 20 1/2 x 27 3/8 x 1 1/8 in. (52.2 x 69.5 x 3 cm)
All signed, dated and numbered 17/100 in pencil (there were also 15 artist's proofs in Roman numerals), published by Multiples, Inc., New York (with their and the artist's copyright inkstamp on the reverse).

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for $27,500

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Editions and Works on Paper Including Works from the Piero Crommelynck Collection

New York Auction 18 April 2017