Ed Ruscha - Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session New York Wednesday, May 15, 2024 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Gagosian Gallery, Paris
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Literature

    Lisa Turvey, ""Things Fall Apart": Ed Ruscha's Swiped Words," Gagosian Quarterly, September 4, 2020, online
    Lisa Turvey, Edward Ruscha Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper, Volume Three: 1998–2018, New York, 2023, no. D2015.11, p. 319 (illustrated)

  • Artist Biography

    Ed Ruscha

    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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Suddenly Spastic

signed and dated "Ed Ruscha 2015" lower right
dry pigment and acrylic on paper
15 x 22 3/8 in. (38.1 x 56.8 cm)
Executed in 2015.

Estimate
$100,000 - 150,000 

Sold for $114,300

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Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session

New York Auction 15 May 2024