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Ed Ruscha
History Kids, from Mountain Prints
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- $30,000 - 50,000
$50,800
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Unique lithograph in colors, on Rives BFK paper, with full margins.
2013
I. 24 x 24 in. (61 x 61 cm)
S. 29 x 28 1/8 in. (73.7 x 71.4 cm)
S. 29 x 28 1/8 in. (73.7 x 71.4 cm)
Signed, dated and numbered 'C.T.P. 10' in pencil (one of 18 color trial proofs, the regular edition was 60 and 18 artist's proofs), co-published by Hamilton Press, Santa Monica, and the Tate Modern, London (with the Hamilton Press blindstamp), framed.
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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.