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Ed Ruscha
History Kids, from Mountain Prints
- Estimate
- £25,000 - 35,000
£60,960
Lot Details
Lithograph in colours, on BFK Rives paper, with full margins.
2013
I. 61.1 x 61 cm (24 x 24 in.)
S. 73.7 x 71.5 cm (29 x 28 1/8 in.)
S. 73.7 x 71.5 cm (29 x 28 1/8 in.)
Signed, dated and numbered 48/60 in pencil on the front (there were also 21 artist's proofs and 18 colour trial proofs), dedicated 'For the History Kid Nick' (Nicholas Serota, former director of the Tate) in pencil on the reverse, co-published by Hamilton Press, Santa Monica (with their blindstamp), and Tate Modern, London, unframed.
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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.