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Ed Ruscha
News, Mews, Pews, Brews, Stews & Dues (E. 34-39)
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- £8,000 - 12,000†
£15,875
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The complete set of six organic screenprints in colours, on Silverbrook Antique Finish paper, with full margins, the sheets loose (as issued), with title page and colophon, all contained in the original red velvet-covered portfolio box.
1970
all S. 58.4 x 80.9 cm (22 7/8 x 31 7/8 in.)
portfolio 62.7 x 84 x 3.4 cm (24 5/8 x 33 1/8 x 1 3/8 in.)
portfolio 62.7 x 84 x 3.4 cm (24 5/8 x 33 1/8 x 1 3/8 in.)
All signed, dated and numbered 45/125 in pencil, further signed and numbered 45 in pencil on the colophon (there were also 25 artist's proof sets), published by Editions Alecto, London (with their inkstamp on the reverse), all unframed.
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Ed Ruscha
American | 1937Quintessentially 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.
Browse ArtistHis 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.