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Insects

Ed Ruscha

Sims Reed Gallery (IFPDA) United Kingdom

Artwork details

Artist: Ed Ruscha
Title: Insects
Description: The complete portfolio, comprising six screenprints in colours and justification page.
Each signed, dated and numbered in pencil.
Three prints on paper-backed wood veneer and three on Fabriano Classico glazed-finish watercolor paper.
Printed by Styria Studio, New York.
Published by Multiples, Inc., New York and Los Angeles with their and the artist's copyright inkstamp verso.
Contained in the original cloth-covered portfolio case with plastic cover encapsulating brownish-red sand.
Date: 1972
Medium: Screenprint
Edition: From an edition of 200.
Signature: Signed
Sheet: 52.2 x 69.5 cm
Status: Sold

The Artist

Ed Ruscha

American artist Ed Ruscha is a pioneer of the 1960’s Pop Art movement known for his signature ‘word paintings’, which incorporate text with images of landscapes. Ruscha studied art in Los Angeles after moving from Omaha, Nebraska in 1956 where he explored a variety of media including painting, collage, printmaking, photography and drawing. His work conflates many influences from Jasper John’s Target with Four Faces (1958), to Pop Artists Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. His renowned piece OOF, encapsulates popular culture, cartoons and comic strips he drew upon.