L.A. Standard: Works by Ed Ruscha from a Private West Coast Collection
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Ed Ruscha
Made in California (C. p. 340, E. 52)
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- $50,000 - 70,000
$87,720
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Screenprint in colors, on Arches paper, the full sheet.
1971
S. 20 x 28 in. (50.8 x 71.1 cm)
Signed with initials, dated and numbered 28/100 in pencil (there were also 12 artist's proofs), published by Grunwald Graphic Arts Foundation, University of California, Los Angeles, printed by Cirrus Editions, Los Angeles, 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.