Ed Ruscha - Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation Part II New York Wednesday, October 9, 2024 | Phillips
  • This lot includes the following books:

     

    Twenty Six Gasoline Stations, 1962, 3rd ed.

    Various Small Fires and Milk, 1964, 3rd ed.

    Some Los Angeles Apartments, 1965, 2nd ed.

    Royal Road Test, 1967, 4th ed.

    Thirty Four Parking Lots in Los Angeles, 1967, 2nd ed.

    Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass, 1968, 1st ed.

    Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass, 1968, 2nd ed.

    Crackers, 1969, 1st ed.

    Real Estate Opportunities, 1970, 1st ed.

    A Few Palm Trees, 1971, 1st ed.

    Colored People, 1972, 1st ed.

    Edward Ruscha (Ed-werd Rew-shay) Young Artist, 1972, 1st ed.

    Hard Light, 1978, 1st ed.

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    • Description

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    • Provenance

      Sotheby's, New York, 10 November 2005, lot 206

    • Exhibited

      Shared History: Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Ritter Art Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, 24 January – 7 March 2020

    • Literature

      Engberg and Philpot, Edward Ruscha Editions 1959-1999: Catalogue Raisonné Volume 1, pp. 78-83, 90-93, 96-97, 100-105, 108-111, 116-121

    • 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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13 Artist's Books

1962-1978
13 artist's books, five with original glassine dust jackets.
Varying sizes from 4 1/2 x 3 5/8 in. (11.4 x 9.2 cm) to 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
Each signed in ink or pencil on the title page, all from the first, second, third or fourth editions of varying sizes, ten published by the artist, two published by Heavy Industry Publications, Hollywood, and one published by The Minneapolis Institute of Art. Various original bindings.

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Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation Part II

New York Auction 9 October 2024