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

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    Walker Art Center/Siri Engberg 67

  • 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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Dish

1973
Lithograph, on Rives paper, with full margins,
I. 3 1/2 x 7 7/8 in. (8.9 x 20 cm).;
S. 10 x 13 1/2 in. (25.4 x 34.3 cm).

signed, dated '1973' and annotated 'B.A.T.' (there were also 20 artist's proofs and the regular edition of 250), published by the Neighbors of Watts, Los Angeles, with the Cirrus Editions blindstamp, in very good condition, framed.

Estimate
$1,500 - 2,500 

Sold for $1,500

Modern and Contemporary Editions

21 May 2008, 2pm
New York