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Ed Ruscha (American, b.1937)
LOT ID: 64285
Sunset Strip: Filthy McNasty's, 1966

Silver Print
20 х 30 in. cm.
Signed, stamped, inscribed, and editioned on verso.
Edition 25
Foundry/Publisher Patrick Painter Editions
Lot description
Ed Ruscha, Sunset Strip : Filthy McNasty’s, 1966/95, One of a series of six silver-gelatin prints mounted on museum board, 20 x 30 inches (50.8 x 76.2 cm) Edition of 25.

These comical photographs of Sunset Strip business fronts are enhanced with the addition of scratched lines onto the negative; creating strange linear patterns in this series of images.

excerpt from edruscha.com bio:

Born in 1937 in Omaha, Nebraska, Edward Ruscha was raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where his family moved in 1941. In 1956 he moved to Los Angeles to attend the Chouinard Art Institute, and had his first solo exhibition in 1963 at the Ferus Gallery. In 1973, Ruscha began showing his work with Leo Castelli Gallery in New York. He continues to live and work in Los Angeles, and currently shows with Gagosian Gallery.

Ruscha has consistently combined the cityscape of his adopted hometown with vernacular language to communicate a particular urban experience. Encompassing painting, drawing, photography, and artist's books, Ruscha's work holds the mirror up to the banality of urban life and gives order to the barrage of mass media-fed images and information that confronts us daily. Ruscha's early career as a graphic artist continues to strongly influence his aesthetic and thematic approach.
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    (H 19.8, W 29.2) in.
    (50.2 x 74.3) cm.
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