Ed Ruscha - Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session New York Wednesday, May 15, 2024 | Phillips

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  • Condition Report

  • Description

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  • Provenance

    Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist in 1999)
    Sotheby’s, New York, March 6, 2020, lot 17
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    Honolulu Academy of Arts, California: 3 by 8 Twice, February 3–March 5, 1978
    London, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, Ed Ruscha, June 26–July 27, 1998
    Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art; Rome, Museo Nazionale delle Arti dei XXi Secolo, Ed Ruscha, March 18–October 3, 2004
    Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Ed Ruscha: Paintings, Drawings, Photographs, Books, November 3, 2004–January 16, 2005

  • Literature

    Ed Ruscha, They Called Her Styrene, London, 2000, n.p. (illustrated)
    Catrìona Black, “Ed Ruscha,” Sunday Herald, November 14, 2004, online
    Lisa Turvey, ed., Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper, Volume Two: 1977–1997, New York, 2018, no. D1977.19, p. 55 (illustrated)

  • 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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TREMBLING STALKS OF AQUATIC VEGETATION

signed and dated "Edward Ruscha 1977" on the reverse
pastel on paper
23 1/8 x 29 1/8 in. (58.7 x 74 cm)
Executed in 1977.

Estimate
$150,000 - 200,000 

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Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session

New York Auction 15 May 2024