Ed Ruscha - Contemporary Art Day Sale London Wednesday, October 15, 2014 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Janie Beggs Gallery, Aspen
    Private Collection, Los Angeles

  • 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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153

Crown

1993
dry pigment and acrylic on paper
56.5 x 73.7 cm (22 1/4 x 29 in.)
Signed and dated 'Ed Ruscha '93' lower right. This work is unique.

Estimate
£60,000 - 80,000 

Sold for £74,500

Contact Specialist
Henry Highley
Head of Day Sale

+44 207 318 4061

Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 16 October 2014 2pm