Ed Ruscha - Property from The Vanmoerkerke Collection, Belgium London Wednesday, April 2, 2008 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Patrick Painter Editions, Hong Kong

  • Literature

    Exhibition catalogue, Bonn, Kunstmuseum; Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Great Illusions: Thomas Demand, Andreas Gursky, Ed Ruscha, 1999, pp. 71-75 (illustrated); S. Engberg and C. Phillpot, Edward Ruscha Editions, 1959-1999, Catalogue Raisonne, Minneapolis, 1999, pp. 50-53 (illustrated); S. Wolf, ed., Ed Ruscha and Photography, New York, 2004, pp. 156-157 (partial illustration of two prints from the complete set)

  • 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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Swimming Pools

1968/1998
Nine color coupler prints.
15 3/4 x 15 3/4 in. (40 x 40 cm) each.
This work is from an edition of 30.

Estimate
£50,000 - 70,000 

Sold for £90,500

Property from The Vanmoerkerke Collection, Belgium

3 Apr 2008, 4pm
London