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

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  • Description

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  • Provenance

    Galerie Sprüth Magers, Berlin
    Galerie Mai 36, Zurich
    Galerie Sprüth Magers, Berlin
    Mireille Mosler, Ltd., New York
    Dickinson Roundell, New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    Fort Worth Art Museum, Edward Ruscha: Recent Drawings, December 4, 1977–January 22, 1978
    Munich, Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers Galerie, Edward Ruscha: Gunpowder and Stains, May 6–June 17, 2000, pp. 36–37, 60 (illustrated, p. 37)
    New York, Dickinson Roundell, Idiosynchromism, March 8–October 14, 2014

  • Literature

    Ed Ruscha, ed., Guacamole Airlines and Other Drawings by Edward Ruscha, New York, 1980, pl. 77, pp. 87, 96 (illustrated, p. 87)
    Ed Ruscha, They Called Her Styrene, London, 2000, n.p. (illustrated)
    Ed Ruscha: Custom-Built Intrigue: Drawings 1974–1984, exh. cat., Gagosian, New York, 2018, p. 77 (illustrated)
    “Ed Ruscha Works on Paper,” Gagosian Quarterly, Winter 2018, October 25, 2018, p. 94
    Lisa Turvey, Edward Ruscha Catalogue Raisonné Of The Works On Paper, Volume Two: 1977–1997, New Haven, 2018, no. D1977.24, p. 58 (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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We're This and We're That Aren't We?

signed and dated "Edward Ruscha 1977" on the reverse
lettuce stain on paper
22 7/8 x 29 in. (58.1 x 73.7 cm)
Executed in 1977.

Estimate
$180,000 - 250,000 

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Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session

New York Auction 15 May 2024