Ed Ruscha - New Now New York Wednesday, September 27, 2023 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Courtesy of the Artist
    The Grinstein Artist Invitational, benefit for Inner-City Arts, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, June 1, 2014
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Literature

    Lisa Turvey, ed., Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper, Volume 3: 1998-2018, New Haven and New York, 2023, no. D2013.50, p. 293 (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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Atomic Facts

signed and dated "Ed Ruscha 2013" lower right
pencil on paper
4 3/8 x 6 3/4 in. (11.1 x 17.1 cm)
Executed in 2013.

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for $35,560

Contact Specialist

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New Now

New York Auction 27 September 2023