Ed Ruscha - Modern and Contemporary Editions New York Sunday, November 23, 2008 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Cirrus Editions pages 347-47; Walker Art Center/Siri Engberg 73-76

  • Catalogue Essay

    Including: Plate; Bowl; Clock and Egg

  • 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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Domestic Tranquility Series

1974
The complete set of four lithographs, on Arches Cover paper, with full margins,
various sizes
all signed, dated and numbered 11/65 in pencil (there were also 24 artist's proofs), published by Multiples, Inc., and Castelli Graphics, New York,  all with the palest mat staining, one with a minor scuff in the margin, otherwise all in very good condition, unframed.

Estimate
$6,000 - 8,000 

Modern and Contemporary Editions

23 Nov 2008, 2pm
New York