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Ed Ruscha
Tropical Fish Series
- Estimate
- $9,000 - 12,000
Lot Details
The complete set of five screenprints in colors with lacquer overprint, on Arches 88 paper, the full sheets,
1975
all S. 25 3/4 x 32 3/4 in (65.4 x 83.2 cm) (one vertical)
all signed and numbered 50/56, 55/57, 39/53, 51/58, and 6/55 respectively in pencil on the reverse (there were either 10 or 11 artist’s proofs for each), published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles (with their inkstamp on the reverse), all in very good condition, all framed.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
Incuding:
Open; Air, Water, Fire; Closed; Music; and Sweets, Meats, Sheets
...Ruscha emerged too early in the ninteen-sixties to pass as a second generation Pop Artist. In face, it is difficult to pigeonhole his style at all. Conceptual, Pop, Surrealist, Dada, Neo-Dada, Earth Art, all these are, arguably, elements of his style. Ruscha can be pinned down partially by any of these labels, and yet he escapes all of them. Henry Geldzahler, Graphic Works by Edward Ruscha, Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand, 1978, preface.
Open; Air, Water, Fire; Closed; Music; and Sweets, Meats, Sheets
...Ruscha emerged too early in the ninteen-sixties to pass as a second generation Pop Artist. In face, it is difficult to pigeonhole his style at all. Conceptual, Pop, Surrealist, Dada, Neo-Dada, Earth Art, all these are, arguably, elements of his style. Ruscha can be pinned down partially by any of these labels, and yet he escapes all of them. Henry Geldzahler, Graphic Works by Edward Ruscha, Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand, 1978, preface.
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.