Ed Ruscha - Editions & Works on Paper New York Tuesday, October 24, 2023 | Phillips
  • Literature

    Dieter Schwarz 1975.03F
    Siri Engberg 85

  • 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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Makeup Department, from Artists & Photographs (S. 1975.03F, E. 85)

1975
Three-color dye transfer print.
S. 15 7/8 x 19 7/8 in. (40.3 x 50.5 cm)
Incised with signature and annotated 'A.P.' (one of 17 artist's proofs, the edition was 60), published by Multiples, Inc., New York (with their inkstamp on the reverse), framed.

Estimate
$5,000 - 7,000 

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