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

Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 16 - 17 April

  • “I like the idea of a word becoming a picture, almost leaving its body, then coming back and becoming a word again.”
    —Ed Ruscha

    • 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

IF

2000
Lithograph in colors, on Arches paper, the full sheet.
S. 22 x 36 in. (55.9 x 91.4 cm)
Signed, dated and numbered 71/75 in pencil (there were also 20 artist's proofs), published by Cirrus Editions, Los Angeles (with their blindstamp), framed.

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Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for $25,400

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Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 16 - 17 April