Ed Ruscha - Contemporary Art Part II New York Tuesday, November 9, 2010 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills

  • Exhibited

    Beverly Hills, Gagosian Gallery, Ed Ruscha: Vowels, September 11 - September 28, 1996

  • 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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Three works: Not a Vowel #72 (S); Vowel #113 (E); Vowel #74 (e)

1996

Acrylic on book covers.

Each 4 1/2 x 4 x 1 in. (11.4 x 10.2 x 2.5 cm).

Not a Vowel #72 (S): Signed and dated “Aug. 20, 1996, Ed Ruscha” on the first page; Vowel #113 (E): Signed and dated “Oct. 5, 1996, Ed Ruscha” on the first page; Vowel #74 (e): Signed and dated “Aug. 20, 1996, Ed Ruscha” on the first page.

Estimate
$15,000 - 20,000 

Sold for $28,750

Contemporary Art Part II

9 November 2010
New York