PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION
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Ed Ruscha
Blank Signs
- Estimate
- $6,000 - 8,000
Lot Details
The complete set of four etchings with aquatint in colors, on Magnani Pescia paper, with full margins, with title page and colophon,
2004
all I. 7 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. (20 x 20 cm)
all S. 12 5/8 x 11 7/8 in. (32.1 x 30.2 cm)
all S. 12 5/8 x 11 7/8 in. (32.1 x 30.2 cm)
all signed, dated `2004' and numbered 30/35 in pencil (there were also 5 artist's proofs), co-published by Lapis, Los Angeles, and Edition Jacob Samuel, Santa Monica (with their blindstamp), all contained in original gray linen-covered portfolio.
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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.