Ed Ruscha - Evening & Day Editions London Tuesday, June 6, 2017 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Gemini G.E.L. 578-582
    Siri Engberg 79-83

  • Catalogue Essay

    Including: Air, Water, Fire; Closed; Open; Music; and Sweets, Meats, Sheets

  • 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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167

Tropical Fish Series

1975
The complete set of five screenprints in colours with lacquer overprint, on Arches 88 paper, the full sheets.
all S. 65.4 x 83.2 cm (25 3/4 x 32 3/4 in.) one vertical
All signed, dated and numbered 50/56, 55/57, 39/53, 51/58, and 6/55 respectively in pencil on the reverse (there were also 10 or 11 artist’s proofs for each), published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles (with their inkstamp on the reverse), all framed.

Estimate
£5,000 - 7,000 

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Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 7 June 2017