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Ed Ruscha
Pico, Hoover, Alvarado
- Estimate
- $300,000 - 400,000
Lot Details
acrylic on paper
signed and dated "Ed Ruscha 1999" lower right
40 1/8 x 60 1/8 in. (101.9 x 152.7 cm.)
Executed in 1999, this will be included in a future volume of Edward Ruscha Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper, edited by Lisa Turvey.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
"I’m showing big paintings of intersections and streets of Los Angeles with black speckled backgrounds that look like the inside of your oven. I guess I’ve always been intrigued by oblique perspectives, like aerial views… taking the viewer up in the air, so you can look down from an angle."
Ed Ruscha
Ed Ruscha
Provenance
Exhibited
Ed Ruscha
American | 1937Quintessentially 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.
Browse ArtistHis 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.