Ed Ruscha - Evening & Day Editions London Tuesday, June 6, 2017 | Phillips

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    Siri Engberg/Walker Art Centre 69

  • 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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Insect Slant (Ants), from Reality and Paradoxes

1973
Lithograph and screenprint, on BFK Rives paper, the full sheet.
S. 56 x 76.5 cm (22 x 30 1/8 in.)
Signed, dated and numbered 65/100 in pencil (there were also 25 artist’s proofs), published by Multiples Inc., New York (with their inkstamp on the reverse), framed.

Estimate
£2,000 - 3,000 

Sold for £3,500

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Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 7 June 2017