Ed Ruscha - Wired: Online Auction London Wednesday, February 10, 2021 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Anthony D'Offay Gallery, London
    Bernier / Eliades Gallery, Athens
    Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2006

  • Exhibited

    Santa Fe, James Kelly Contemporary, Ed Ruscha: S Books, O Books, And Other Books, 12 July - 22 September 2001

  • 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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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT NORTHERN EUROPEAN COLLECTION

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signed and dated 'Ed Ruscha '93' on the inside of the back cover
bleach on a 1973 cloth-bound book Stand Like Men
21.9 x 14.8 x 3 cm (8 5/8 x 5 7/8 x 1 1/8 in.)
Executed in 1993.

Estimate
£7,000 - 10,000 

Sold for £6,930

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Wired: Online Auction

Online Auction 10 - 18 February 2021