Ed Ruscha - Editions & Works on Paper New York Wednesday, June 21, 2023 | Phillips

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    Siri Engberg B2, B3, B8, B13 and B16

  • 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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Various Small Fires; Some Los Angeles Apartments; Nine swimming pools; A Few Palm Trees; Colored People; and S Books (E. B2, B3, B8, B13 & B16)

1964-2001
A group of six artist's books, three with glassine dust jackets.
one 8 x 5 3/4 x 1/4 in. (20.3 x 14.6 x .6 cm)
five approx. 7 x 5 1/2 x 1/4 in. (17.8 x 14 x .6 cm)

Various Small Fires and Some Los Angeles Apartments from the second editions of 3000, Nine swimming pools, A Few Palm Trees, Colored People and S Books from the first editions of various sizes, five published by the artist, A Few Palm Trees published Heavy Industry Publications, Hollywood.

Estimate
$2,500 - 3,500 

Sold for $5,715

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Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 21 June 2023