James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica
7-Eleven Collection, Dallas
Sotheby's, New York, May 16, 2001, lot 100
Private Collection
Christie's, New York, November 11, 2004, lot 187
Private Collection (acquired from the above sale)
Sotheby's, New York, May 16, 2007, lot 348
Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)
Phillips, London, October 3, 2019, lot 157
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Lisa Turvey, ed., Edward Ruscha Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper Volume Two: 1977 - 1997, New York, 2018, p. 129 (illustrated)
American • 1937
Quintessentially 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.
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