Ed Ruscha - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session New York Wednesday, November 16, 2022 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Collection of the artist
    Private Collection
    Christie's, Los Angeles, December 5, 2000, lot 105
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Literature

    Siri Engberg and Clive Phillpot, Edward Ruscha: Editions 1959-1999, Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1999, vols. I & II, no. 187-196; vol. I, pp. 53-55; vol. II, pp. 108-109 (illustrated, vol. l, pp. 53-55)

  • 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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Property from an Important New York Collector

188

Gasoline Stations

signed, numbered and dated "A.P. Ed Ruscha '89" on the title sheet
10 gelatin silver prints
each 19 1/2 x 23 in. (49.5 x 58.4 cm)
portfolio box 20 3/8 x 25 5/8 x 1 3/8 in. (51.8 x 65.1 x 3.5 cm)

Conceived in 1962 and printed in 1989, this portfolio is artist’s proof 1 from an edition of 25 plus 8 artist’s proofs and 1 trial proof.

The portfolio contains the following photographs: Union-Needles, CA; Shell-Daggett, CA; Phillips 66-Flagstaff, AZ; Texaco-Jackrabbit, AZ; Flying A-Kingman, AZ; Dixie-Lupton, AZ; Self-Service-Milan, NM; Standard-Amarillo, TX; Knox-Less-Oklahoma City, OK; Fina-Groom, TX

Estimate
$120,000 - 180,000 

Sold for $138,600

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session

New York Auction 16 November 2022