Ed Ruscha - Evening & Day Editions London Thursday, September 10, 2020 | Phillips

Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 10 September 2020

  • Literature

    Gemini G.E.L. 1008
    Siri Engberg 118

  • 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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Lot offered with No Reserve

Ed Ruscha

It's Recreational, from World Series

1982
Lithograph in colours (faded), on Arches 88 paper, the full sheet.
S. 63.3 x 86.7 cm (24 7/8 x 34 1/8 in.)
Signed, dated and numbered 18/40 in pencil (there were also 11 artist's proofs), published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles (with their blindstamps), unframed.

Estimate
£4,000 - 6,000 •‡

Sold for £8,125

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Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 10 September 2020