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Ed Ruscha
Library
- Estimate
- $3,000 - 4,000
$3,250
Lot Details
Hard-ground etching in blue, on Dieu Donné handmade cotton paper, with full margins,
1995
I. 11 1/4 x 14 7/8 in. (28.6 x 37.8 cm)
S. 20 x 23 3/8 in. (50.8 x 59.4 cm)
S. 20 x 23 3/8 in. (50.8 x 59.4 cm)
signed, dated `94' and numbered 29/40 in ink (there were also 8 artist's proofs), published by Hine Editions/Limestone Press, San Francisco, unframed.
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Catalogue Essay
This image is based on a library in Joshua Tree, CA.
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.