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Ed Ruscha
A collection of twelve artist's books
- Estimate
- $6,000 - 9,000
Lot Details
A group of 12 artist's books by Ed Ruscha, including one collaboration with Lawrence Weiner, four with the original glassine dust jackets.
1962-2000
smallest 7 x 5 x 1/4 in. (17.8 x 12.7 x .6 cm)
largest 10 x 10 x 1/2 in. (25.4 x 25.4 x 1.3 cm)
largest 10 x 10 x 1/2 in. (25.4 x 25.4 x 1.3 cm)
Ten from the first edition, published by the artist, all with occasional surface soiling and soft handling creases, a few with library inkstamps at the inside covers, Sunset Strip's slipcase with a separated piece, Crackers not with the original cover, otherwise all in good condition.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
Including: Twenty Six Gasoline Stations, Colored People, A Few Palm Trees, Real Estate Opportunties, Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, Crackers, Royal Road Test, Various Small Fires and Milk, Some Los Angles Apartments, Thirty Four Parking Lots in Los Angeles, and City Scapes O Books
Provenance
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.