Ed Ruscha - Evening & Day Editions London Wednesday, January 23, 2019 | Phillips

Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 24 January 2019

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  • 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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Ed Ruscha

Hey

1969
Lithograph in colours, on calendered BFK Rives paper, with full margins.
I. 20.4 x 25.3 cm (8 x 9 7/8 in.)
S. 29.9 x 34.5 cm (11 3/4 x 13 5/8 in.)
Signed, dated and numbered 14/20 in pencil (there were also 4 artist's proofs), published by Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles (with their blindstamp), framed.

Estimate
£6,000 - 8,000 

Sold for £21,250

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Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 24 January 2019