Smash Ed Ruscha. From san francisco museum of modern art (sfmoma) , ed ruscha, smash (1963), oil on canvas, 71 3/4 × 67 in In 2008, eli broad acquired ruscha's liquid word painting desire (1969) for $2.4 millions at sotheby's, which back then was 40 percent under the $4 million low estimate.
A navy blue canvas with the word smash in yellow, which ruscha painted in 1963, was purchased by larry gagosian for $30.4 million at a 2014 christie's auction in new york. Ed ruscha is the quintessential los angeles artist whose work catapulted pop art from a form that merely highlighted the universal ordinary into a form in which the ordinary could now be viewed in relation to its geographically intrinsic cultural contexts. Edition from the edition of 20, signed, dated and numbered by the artist
Smash Held The Previous Auction Record For Ruscha.
In 1956, (aged 18) he left home driving along route 66 to california. Ed ruscha made paintings of those words, too. Consider “i think i’ll.,” a 1983 piece that has moved into the first family’s living quarters at the white.
His Word Painting Hurting The Word Radio #2 (1964) Sold By L.a.
This was followed by another christie's sale in 2014 of smash (1963) which sold for $30,405,000. Smash, ed ruscha, 1963, christie’s. Hurting the word radio #2 (1963) sold for $52,485,000 in november 2019, and smash (1963) sold for $30,405,000 in november 2014.
Best Known For His Word Paintings, Since The 1950S Ed Ruscha Has Been Examining The Iconography Of Popular Culture And Emblems Of Americana Through Drawings, Paintings, Prints, Photographs, And Artist's Books Often Characterised By The Use Of Bold Typefaces And Bright Colours.
A ruscha work last broke a record five years ago at christie’s in new york when smash, 1963, sold for $30.4 million,. Smash 1963 oil on canvas 71 1/2 x 67 inches. Edition from the edition of 20, signed, dated and numbered by the artist
Ed Ruscha’s 1967 Masterpiece Ripe, Created At The Height Of Pop Art Movement The Conceptual Artist Is Closely Associated With, Will Be Offered At Christie’s In November With An Estimate Of Between Us$18 Million And Us$22 Million.
Sometimes these came in the form of single words; In his early days, ed ruscha painted single words that packed a punch: Ed ruscha, oof, 1962 (reworked 1963);
The Highways And Landscapes He Passed On His Journey Were To Influence His Work In A Profound And Lasting Way.
Since the start of his career, in los angeles, ruscha has used words in his paintings, fusing image and text with the high art of painting, in response to a hollywood environment of mass media in which words and images. Ed ruscha view description from its first appearance in his artist's book twentysix gasoline stations and its subsequent translation into a masterpiece of american painting in 1964 as standard station, amarillo, texas, the standard gasoline station is. Based in los angeles, ruscha pretty much invented an entire genre:
