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Ed Ruscha
a group of ten artist's books
- Estimate
- $6,000 - 8,000
$6,250
Lot Details
Ten artist's books,
1963-1978
various sizes
from various editions, seven books are first edition copies, including Various Small Fires, Nine Swimming Pools, Crackers, Babycakes, Real Estate Opportunities, A Few Palm Trees, Records, and Hard Light, all generally in very good condition.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
Including:
Twenty Six GasolineStations, 1963;Various Small Fires,1964; SomeLos Angeles Apartments, 1965; Nine Swimming Pools, 1968; Crackers,1969; Babycakes, 1970; Real Estate Opportunities, 1970; AFew Palm Trees, 1971; Records, 1971; and Hard Light, 1978
Twenty Six GasolineStations, 1963;Various Small Fires,1964; SomeLos Angeles Apartments, 1965; Nine Swimming Pools, 1968; Crackers,1969; Babycakes, 1970; Real Estate Opportunities, 1970; AFew Palm Trees, 1971; Records, 1971; and Hard Light, 1978
Literature
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.