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Ed Ruscha
Parking Lots
- Estimate
- $40,000 - 60,000
$76,200
Lot Details
Thirty gelatin silver prints, printed 1999.
1967
Each 15 x 15 in. (38.1 x 38.1 cm)
Each overall 21 5/8 x 21 5/8 in. (54.9 x 54.9 cm)
Each overall 21 5/8 x 21 5/8 in. (54.9 x 54.9 cm)
Each initialed and numbered 14/35 in pencil on the verso; title and plate number stamp on the reverse of each mat.
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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.