Ed Ruscha

Double Standard

Details

Ed Ruscha
Double Standard
screenprint in colors, on wove paper, 1969, signed by the artist in collaboration with Mason Williams in pencil, numbered 38/40 (there was also one artist's proof), published by the artist, Los Angeles, California
Image: 19 ½ x 36 7/8 in. (50 x 94 cm.)
Sheet: 25 ¾ x 40 in. (65 x 102 cm.)

Provenance

Private collection, New York
Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 2 May 2007, lot 736
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Literature

S. Engberg, Ed Ruscha, Editions, 1959-1999: Catalogue Raisonné, Minneapolis and New York, 1999, no. 32

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Lot Essay

"...I started looking at gas stations as though it was architecture and very simple architecture at that and some gas stations were made by…they were prefabricated and made of metal panels that were just literally put together and bolted together and so I began to see it as as a beautiful form of architecture...." - Ed Ruscha

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