Ed Ruscha - Evening & Day Editions London Wednesday, June 8, 2016 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Siri Engberg B1-B5, B8, B10, B12-B13, and B15-B16

  • Catalogue Essay

    Including Twentysix Gasoline Stations; Various Small Fires and Milk; Some Los Angeles Apartments; Every Building on The Sunset Strip; Thirtyfour Parking Lots in Los Angeles; Nine Swimming Pools and Broken Glass; Crackers; Real Estate Opportunities; A Few Palm Trees; Records; Colored People; and Picturing Ed: Jerry McMillan’s Photographs of Ed Ruscha, 1958-1972

  • 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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Group of artist's books (11); and Picturing Ed: Jerry McMillan’s Photographs of Ed Ruscha, 1958-1972 (1)

1963-1972; and 2004
A group of 12 books, comprised of 11 artist’s books by Ed Ruscha, and one exhibition catalogue of photographs of the artist by Jerry McMillan,
all approximately 18 x 14 x .5 cm (7 1/8 x 5 1/2 x 0 1/4 in.)
all artist's books unsigned and unnumbered from either the first or second editions of varying sizes, Picturing Ed: Jerry McMillan’s Photographs of Ed Ruscha, 1958-1972 signed by Ed Ruscha and Jerry McMillan in black ink on the inside front cover, all artist's books published by Ed Ruscha, Picturing Ed published by Smart Art Press, Santa Monica, California.

Estimate
£4,000 - 6,000 

Contact Specialist
Robert Kennan
Head of Sale
London
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Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 9 June 2016