Ed Ruscha - Modern and Contemporary Editions New York Wednesday, May 21, 2008 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Walker Art Center/Siri Engberg 60-65

  • Catalogue Essay

    Titles include: Flies; Black Ants; Swarm of Red Ants; Red Ants; Cockroaches and Pearl Dust Combination.
    The dirt in these boxes comes from Ruscha's elementary school playground in Oklahoma City.

  • 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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Insects Portfolio

1972
The complete set of six screenprints in colors, three on paper-backed wood veneer and three on Fabriano paper, the full sheets,
all S. 27 x 20 in. (68.6 x 50.8 cm).
all signed, dated '1972' and numbered 92/100 in pencil (there were also 15 artist's proofs in Roman numerals), published by Multiples, Inc., New York, a few inherent printing creases and minor lifting of the veneer, otherwise all in very good condition, all framed, original raw linen-covered portfolio with plastic cover encapsulating brownish-red sand contained in plexi box for hanging purposes (with title page/justification).

Estimate
$10,000 - 15,000 

Sold for $22,500

Modern and Contemporary Editions

21 May 2008, 2pm
New York