PRESS RELEASE
PHILLIPS ANNOUNCES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SPRING EDITIONS & WORKS ON PAPER AUCTIONS
Four Auctions Across Two Days Showcase
Mastery Across Styles, Movements, and Media
Ed Ruscha’s Landmark Standard Station Prints Lead the Evening Sale
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Ed Ruscha Standard Station; Mocha Standard; Cheese Mold Standard with Olive; and Double Standard, 1966 and 1969 Estimate: $900,000–1,200,000 To be offered in the Editions & Works on Paper Evening Sale, 22 April |
NEW YORK – 7 APRIL 2026 – Phillips is pleased to present highlights from its spring 2026 Editions & Works on Paper auctions in New York, spanning two days and four distinct sales. The series begins on 22 April with MODERNISM and the Editions & Works on Paper Evening Sale, followed on 23 April by the Editions & Works on Paper Day Sale and DUCHAMP & COMPANY, Curated by Francis M. Naumann, as previously announced. All works will be on view at Phillips’ New York galleries from 16–22 April, with the Editions & Works on Paper Online sale running from 21–29 April on phillips.com.
Among the Post-War and contemporary highlights is the top lot of the Evening Sale, Ed Ruscha’s rare and iconic group of four screenprints, offered as a single lot — Standard Station (1966), alongside Mocha Standard, Cheese Mold Standard with Olive, and Double Standard (all 1969). One of the most enduring images of Ruscha’s career, the Standard gas station recurs throughout his practice as a vehicle for exploring Americana and the mythology of the open road. As a young man, Ruscha regularly drove between his hometown of Oklahoma City and his new home in Los Angeles along Route 66, photographing the fuel stops that would become ubiquitous to his visual language. He would return to the motif more than four decades later with Ghost Station (2011), a monochromatic embossed image that features prominently in the Evening Sale.
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