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Ed Ruscha
The End
- Estimate
- £60,000 - 80,000‡
£127,000
Lot Details
The complete set of four holograms in colours.
1998-2016
all framed 29.7 x 37.5 cm (11 3/4 x 14 3/4 in.)
All numbered 20/23 and annotated consecutively from 'RU(20)1' to 'RU(20)4' (printed) on the labels affixed to the reverse of each frame (there were also 2 printer's proofs), further signed and dated 'Dec. 13, 2016' in black ink on the accompanying Certificate of Authenticity issued by the artist, published by Gagosian, New York, all contained in the original artist's specified black wooden frames.
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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.