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Ed Ruscha
Cheese Mold Standard with Olive
- Estimate
- $35,000 - 45,000
$68,750
Lot Details
Screenprint in colors, on wove paper, with full margins,
1969
I. 19 1/2 x 36 3/4 in (49.5 x 93.3 cm)
S. 25 1/2 x 39 3/4 in (64.8 x 101 cm)
S. 25 1/2 x 39 3/4 in (64.8 x 101 cm)
signed, dated `1969' and numbered 78/150 in pencil (there were also 10 artist's proofs), published by the artist, framed.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
“It has to be called an icon; that’s the main thing about that painting…It became a motif for me to explore in other ways, too. I saw it as a loaf of bread; I saw it as several other things.”—Ed Ruscha on the painting Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas (1963) in 1981.
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.