Ed Ruscha - Editions & Works on Paper New York Tuesday, October 22, 2024 | Phillips
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    Siri Engberg 132
    Cirrus Editions p. 349

  • 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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Untitled (E. 132)

1983
Lithograph in colors, on Arches 88 paper, with full margins.
I. 27 x 22 3/4 in. (68.6 x 57.8 cm)
S. 33 1/8 x 28 1/2 in. (84.1 x 72.4 cm)

Signed, dated and numbered 11/100 in pencil (there were also 25 artist's proofs), co-published by Cirrus Editions, Los Angeles and Bernard Jacobson, Ltd., London, on the occasion of the 1983 Chicago International Art Exposition (with the Cirrus Editions blindstamp), framed.

Estimate
$2,000 - 3,000 

Sold for $1,651

Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 22 - 24 October 2024