Ed Ruscha - Photographs New York Wednesday, October 11, 2023 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Gagosian Gallery, New York

  • Literature

    Müller, Ed Ruscha: Los Angeles Apartments, p. 77, pl. 31
    Gagosian, Ed Ruscha: Photographs: Seven Products, Twentyfive Apartments, Three Palm Trees, Six Rooftops and One Aerial View, p. 13

  • 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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PROPERTY FROM AN ESTEEMED COLLECTION

112

Americana from Twentyfive Apartments

1965
Gelatin silver print, printed 2003.
7 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (19.1 x 19.1 cm)
Signed, dated, and numbered 5/8 in pencil on the verso.

Estimate
$7,000 - 9,000 

Sold for $15,240

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Sarah Krueger
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Photographs

New York Auction 11 October 2023