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Auction archive: Lot number 8

Ed Ruscha

Editions
21 Nov 2010
Estimate
US$15,000 - US$25,000
Price realised:
US$11,875
Auction archive: Lot number 8

Ed Ruscha

Editions
21 Nov 2010
Estimate
US$15,000 - US$25,000
Price realised:
US$11,875
Beschreibung:

PROPERTY OF DREIER LLP Ed Ruscha Rooftops 1961 Four gelatin silver print, printed 2004, all I. 25 1/4 x 25 1/4 in. (64.1 x 64.1 cm) each signed, dated '2004' and numbered 15/35 in pencil on the reverse of the flush-mount, all in good condition, all framed.
Artist Bio 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. View More Works

Auction archive: Lot number 8
Auction:
Datum:
21 Nov 2010
Auction house:
Phillips
New York
Beschreibung:

PROPERTY OF DREIER LLP Ed Ruscha Rooftops 1961 Four gelatin silver print, printed 2004, all I. 25 1/4 x 25 1/4 in. (64.1 x 64.1 cm) each signed, dated '2004' and numbered 15/35 in pencil on the reverse of the flush-mount, all in good condition, all framed.
Artist Bio 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. View More Works

Auction archive: Lot number 8
Auction:
Datum:
21 Nov 2010
Auction house:
Phillips
New York
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