Ed Ruscha - Modern & Contemporary Editions New York Sunday, November 21, 2010 | Phillips

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    Walker Art Center/Siri Engberg 41

  • 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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Sin

1970
Screenprint in colors, on Louvain Opaque Cover paper, with full margins,
I. 13 x 21 3/4 in. (33 x 55.2 cm);
S. 19 1/8 x 26 5/8 in. (48.6 x 67.6 cm)

signed, dated `1970' and numbered 35/150 in pencil (there were also 5 artist's proofs), published by Cirrus Editions, Los Angeles (with their blindstamp), occasional soft creases, minor soiling in the margins, creasing in places along the sheet edges, a flattened crease at upper left margin, pale mat staining along the upper sheet edge, otherwise in very good condition, framed.

Estimate
$6,000 - 9,000 

Sold for $12,500

Modern & Contemporary Editions

21 Nov 2010
New York