Ed Ruscha - Saturday @ Phillips New York Saturday, April 26, 2008 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Pace Editions, Inc., New York

  • 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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Sunliners 7

1996
Aquatint and etching.
10 1/4 x 7 3/8 in. (26 x 18.7 cm).
Signed, dated and numbered lower edge. This work is from an edition of 50.

Estimate
$800 - 1,200 

Sold for $1,625

Saturday @ Phillips

26 Apr 2008, 10am & 2pm
New York