Ed Ruscha - Evening & Day Editions New York Monday, October 28, 2013 | Phillips
  • 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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New Wood, Old Wood

2007
The complete set of two Mixograph relief prints in colors, on handmade paper, the full sheets,
both S. 13 3/4 x 33 3/4 in (34.9 x 85.7 cm)
both signed, dated `2007' and numbered 23/75 in pencil (there were also 10 artist's proofs), published by Mixografia, Los Angeles, both in very good condition, unframed.

Estimate
$9,000 - 12,000 

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Kelly Troester – Modern Editions
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Evening & Day Editions

New York 28 October 2013 10am & 6pm