Ed Ruscha - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale New York Tuesday, November 10, 2015 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Gagosian Gallery, London
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    London, Gagosian Gallery, Ed Ruscha: Broken Glass, October 2 - November 17, 2007

  • Literature

    Ed Ruscha: Broken Glass, exh. cat., Gagosian Gallery, London, 2007, n.p. (illustrated)
    This work will be included in a future volume of Edward Ruscha Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper, edited by Lisa Turvey.

  • Catalogue Essay

    "The idea here was to think and feel like a piece of broken glass." Ed Ruscha, 2007

  • 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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Pieces of Broken Pane

2007
acrylic on museum board paper
12 1/4 x 9 3/8 in. (31.1 x 23.8 cm)
Signed and dated "Ed Ruscha 2007" lower right, titled "Pieces of Broken Pane" on the reverse.

Estimate
$25,000 - 35,000 

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

New York Auction 10 November 2015 11am