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Modern & Contemporary Editions

21 Nov 2010
New York

  • Literature

    Walker Art Center/Siri Engberg 214-219

  • 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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Ed Ruscha

Cameo Cuts portfolio

1992
The complete set of six lithographs in colors, on Rives BFK paper, with full margins,
12 5/8 x 12 3/4 in. (32.1 x 32.4 cm)
all prints and colophon signed (prints with initials), dated `92' (colophon dated `1992') and numbered 14/28 in pencil (there were also 10 artist's proofs), published by Edition Julie Sylvester, New York, all in very good condition, contained in original green linen-covered embossed folder.

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

Modern & Contemporary Editions

21 Nov 2010
New York