ED RUSCHA. "Ship on pond".
Acrylic on photograph on museum board, 31.3 x 38.5 cm, including frame 33 x 40 cm. Signed and dated Ed Ruscha 2010.
PROVENANCE
Wetterling Gallery, 2010.
Anna-Stina Malmborg & Gunnar Höglund Collection.
Ed Ruscha moved to Los Angeles in 1956 to study commercial art at the Chouinard Art Institute. He made his breakthrough during the 1960s with works in which he integrated words, phrases, and motifs from the urban and car culture of the American West Coast. Ruscha is often described as a link between Pop Art's use of consumer goods and Conceptual Art's focus on language and signs as carrying elements in the artwork.
During the mid-1980s, Ruscha began his Silhouette series, which includes the works with ship motifs. This period marked a shift from his earlier text-based paintings to images focusing on shadows and contours. Technically, he often used spray-applied acrylic paint on canvas or paper to achieve a blurred effect. He drew the motifs from the black-and-white adventure films and film noir that he watched while growing up.
Ruscha continued to use the spray technique he developed in the Silhouette series throughout his subsequent career. The dark colors and the cinematic feel gave a more serious tone that came to characterize much of his later art.
"They’re not about my experience because I ain't a sailor. The ship is my interpretation of a picture of a ship rather than a ship. It's like a painting of an idea about a ship.".Show more
Condition
Not examined out of frame. Apparently in good condition.
For questions, please contact lena.ryden@stockholmsauktionsverk.com.
Resale right
No
Artist/designer
Ed Ruscha (Born 1937)
Sale
The Modern Art Sale
Acrylic on photograph on museum board, 31.3 x 38.5 cm, including frame 33 x 40 cm. Signed and dated Ed Ruscha 2010.
PROVENANCE
Wetterling Gallery, 2010.
Anna-Stina Malmborg & Gunnar Höglund Collection.
Ed Ruscha moved to Los Angeles in 1956 to study commercial art at the Chouinard Art Institute. He made his breakthrough during the 1960s with works in which he integrated words, phrases, and motifs from the urban and car culture of the American West Coast. Ruscha is often described as a link between Pop Art's use of consumer goods and Conceptual Art's focus on language and signs as carrying elements in the artwork.
During the mid-1980s, Ruscha began his Silhouette series, which includes the works with ship motifs. This period marked a shift from his earlier text-based paintings to images focusing on shadows and contours. Technically, he often used spray-applied acrylic paint on canvas or paper to achieve a blurred effect. He drew the motifs from the black-and-white adventure films and film noir that he watched while growing up.
Ruscha continued to use the spray technique he developed in the Silhouette series throughout his subsequent career. The dark colors and the cinematic feel gave a more serious tone that came to characterize much of his later art.
"They’re not about my experience because I ain't a sailor. The ship is my interpretation of a picture of a ship rather than a ship. It's like a painting of an idea about a ship.".Show more
Condition
Not examined out of frame. Apparently in good condition.
For questions, please contact lena.ryden@stockholmsauktionsverk.com.
Resale right
No
Artist/designer
Ed Ruscha (Born 1937)
Sale
The Modern Art Sale
