Ed Ruscha - Editions & Works on Paper New York Tuesday, April 16, 2024 | Phillips

Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 16 - 17 April

  • “Words are pattern-like, and in their horizontality they answer my investigation into landscape. They're almost not words—they are objects that become words.”
    —Ed Ruscha

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      Siri Engberg 7

    • 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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Ed Ruscha

Hollywood (E. 7)

1968
Screenprint in colors, on laid paper, with full margins.
I. 12 3/8 x 40 3/4 in. (31.4 x 103.5 cm)
S. 17 1/2 x 44 1/4 in. (44.5 x 112.4 cm)
Signed, dated and numbered 73/100 in pencil (there were also 2 artist's proofs), published by the artist, framed.

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$40,000 - 60,000 

Sold for $48,260

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Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 16 - 17 April