Ed Ruscha - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session New York Wednesday, November 15, 2023 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Courtesy of the Artist
    Cancer Research Institute: Live Benefit Auction, New York, May 6, 2018, lot 3
    Private Collection
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Literature

    Lisa Turvey, Edward Ruscha Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper, Volume Three: 1998–2018, New York, 2023, no. D2017.68, p. 381 (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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IS

signed and dated "Ed Ruscha 2017" lower right
acrylic on paper
4 5/8 x 5 3/4 in. (11.7 x 14.6 cm)
Painted in 2017.

Estimate
$30,000 - 40,000 

Sold for $69,850

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session

New York Auction 15 November 2023