Ed Ruscha - Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation New York Thursday, April 4, 2024 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Patrick Painter Editions, Los Angeles

  • Exhibited

    La Morada Del Hombre: Colección Martin Z. Margulies / The Dwelling Life of Man: Collection Martin Z. Margulies, Fundación Foto Colectania, Barcelona, 3 June – 25 September 2011

  • Literature

    Fundación Barrié, La Morada Del Hombre: Colección Martin Z. Margulies, pp. 56-59
    Whitney Museum of American Art, Ed Ruscha and Photography, p. 208

  • 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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Vacant Lots

1970
Four gelatin silver prints, printed 2003.
Each 22 x 22 in. (55.9 x 55.9 cm)
Each signed, dated and numbered 4/35 in pencil on the reverse of the flush-mount.

Estimate
$8,000 - 12,000 

Sold for $7,620

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Caroline Deck
Senior Specialist, Photographs
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Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation

New York Auction 4 April 2024