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

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    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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Section 22, from Gravure Group (E. 236)

1995
Photogravure, on Somerset Satin paper, with full margins.
I. 10 7/8 x 13 5/8 in. (27.6 x 34.6 cm)
S. 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)

Signed, dated and numbered 43/45 in pencil (there were also 10 artist's proofs), published by Crown Point Press, San Francisco (with their blindstamp), framed.

Estimate
$800 - 1,200 

Sold for $2,032

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