Ed Ruscha - Editions & Works on Paper New York Tuesday, October 22, 2024 | Phillips

Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 22 - 24 October 2024

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    Siri Engberg 50

  • 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

Crackers, from Book Covers (E. 50)

1970
Lithograph, on Arches paper, with full margins.
I. 8 3/8 x 11 3/8 in. (21.3 x 28.9 cm)
S. 16 1/8 x 20 1/8 in. (41 x 51.1 cm)
Signed with initials, dated and annotated 'Presentation Proof' in pencil (the edition was 30 and 3 artist's proofs), published by Graphicstudio, University of South Florida, Tampa (with their blindstamp), unframed.

Estimate
$8,000 - 12,000 

Sold for $9,525

Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 22 - 24 October 2024