Allen Ruppersberg - Editions & Works on Paper New York Tuesday, October 24, 2023 | Phillips

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  • Exhibited

    San Antonio, Artpace, On the Road, May 13 - September 5, 2010 (another example exhibited, dated 1971)
    Los Angeles, Hammer Museum, Still Life with Fish: Photography from the Collection, February 13 - May 15, 2016 (another example exhibited)

  • Catalogue Essay

    Executed early in his career, Untitled (City Limits) reflects the importance of language in pioneering conceptual artist Allen Ruppersberg’s practice along with contemporaries Ed Ruscha and John Baldessari. Each work depicts a snapshot of a city limit sign from small towns in California with a hand holding a magazine comically extending into the frame, interrupting the otherwise quiet scene. This juxtaposition and sequential arrangement of the series of five photographs induces the viewer to search for a narrative that extends across the works.

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Untitled (City Limits)

1970
Five black and white photographs, on Agfa photo paper.
all S. 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
All sequentially numbered 1-5 in red ink on the reverse, from the edition of 3, all unframed.

Estimate
$10,000 - 15,000 

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Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 24-26 October 2023