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Ed Ruscha
News, Mews, Pews, Brews, Stews & Dues: five plates
- Estimate
- $8,000 - 12,000
$11,875
Lot Details
The incomplete set of five organic screenprints in colors, on Silverbrook Antique Finish paper, with full margins, with title page and colophon listing the ingredients used for each print, the sheets loose (as issued) contained in the original red velvet portfolio.
1970
all S. 22 7/8 x 31 7/8 in. (58.3 x 80.9 cm)
All signed, dated and numbered 125/125 in pencil, also signed and numbered in pencil on the colophon (there were also 25 artist's proofs), published by Editions Alecto, London (with their inkstamp on the reverse), lacking News.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
The Ingredients used in printing this portfolio:
NEWS: Screenprint, organic, split fount for background, printed with blackcurrent pie filing (Morton Beacham Products, Brentford, Middlesex), over red salmon roe (Salmonroe Products, Vancouver)
MEWS: Screenprint, organic, background printed with Bolognese sauce (Pasta Products, Croydon, Surrey) and split fount for lettering printed in blackcurrent pie filling (Morton Beacham Products, Brentford, Middlesex), over cherry pie filling (James Robertson Limited, Regent Street, London), over mixed raw egg (Valley Farm Eggs Limited, Pembroke Road, Walthamstow, London, E17)
PEWS: Screenprint, organic, background printed with Hershey's chocolate flavoured syrup (Hershey's Foods Corporation, Pennsylvania) and Camp coffee and chicory essence (R. Patterson & Sons, Glasgow) mixed 6/4; and squid in ink (Valentin Puga, Vigo)
BREWS: Screenprint, organic, split fount lettering printed with axle grease 9Total Limited, Hanwell, London) over caviar (Odden Caviar Limited, Sjaellands Odde, Denmark)
STEWS: Screenprint, organic, split fount lettering printed with crushed baked beans (H. J. Heinz & Company Ltd, Hayes, Middlesex), caviar (Odden Caviar Limited, Sjaellands Odde, Denmark), fresh strawberries (Agrexco Limited, Israel), cherry pie filling (James Robertson Limited, Regent Street, London) mango chutney (Wilkins & Sons Limited, Tiptree, Essex), tomato paste (Rebaudengo S.A.S. Turin), daffodils (Springfield, Spalding), tulips (Pick Limited, Spalding) and leaves
DUES: Screenprint, organic, background and lettering printed with Branston Pickle (Crosse & Blackwell Limited, Croydon, Surrey)
NEWS: Screenprint, organic, split fount for background, printed with blackcurrent pie filing (Morton Beacham Products, Brentford, Middlesex), over red salmon roe (Salmonroe Products, Vancouver)
MEWS: Screenprint, organic, background printed with Bolognese sauce (Pasta Products, Croydon, Surrey) and split fount for lettering printed in blackcurrent pie filling (Morton Beacham Products, Brentford, Middlesex), over cherry pie filling (James Robertson Limited, Regent Street, London), over mixed raw egg (Valley Farm Eggs Limited, Pembroke Road, Walthamstow, London, E17)
PEWS: Screenprint, organic, background printed with Hershey's chocolate flavoured syrup (Hershey's Foods Corporation, Pennsylvania) and Camp coffee and chicory essence (R. Patterson & Sons, Glasgow) mixed 6/4; and squid in ink (Valentin Puga, Vigo)
BREWS: Screenprint, organic, split fount lettering printed with axle grease 9Total Limited, Hanwell, London) over caviar (Odden Caviar Limited, Sjaellands Odde, Denmark)
STEWS: Screenprint, organic, split fount lettering printed with crushed baked beans (H. J. Heinz & Company Ltd, Hayes, Middlesex), caviar (Odden Caviar Limited, Sjaellands Odde, Denmark), fresh strawberries (Agrexco Limited, Israel), cherry pie filling (James Robertson Limited, Regent Street, London) mango chutney (Wilkins & Sons Limited, Tiptree, Essex), tomato paste (Rebaudengo S.A.S. Turin), daffodils (Springfield, Spalding), tulips (Pick Limited, Spalding) and leaves
DUES: Screenprint, organic, background and lettering printed with Branston Pickle (Crosse & Blackwell Limited, Croydon, Surrey)
Literature
Ed Ruscha
American | 1937Quintessentially 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.
Browse ArtistHis 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.