Ed Ruscha - Editions & Works on Paper New York Tuesday, October 19, 2021 | Phillips

Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 19-21 October 2021

  • Provenance

    Gagosian Gallery, New York
    Private Collection, acquired from the above in 2012
    Acquired from the above in 2020

  • Literature

    Matthew Witkovsky, Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964-1977, pl. 3

  • 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

Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph (Hand Showing Book Cover), 1964-1977

2011
Gelatin silver print, with accompanying book Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964-1977, all contained in the original black cloth-covered portfolio, printed later.
S. 7 3/8 x 7 3/8 in. (18.7 x 18.7 cm)
The print signed, dated 1963-2011 and numbered 5/40 in black ink.

Estimate
$3,000 - 5,000 

Sold for $3,024

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Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 19-21 October 2021