Live Auction 22860Contemporary Edition: New York
ED RUSCHA (B. 1937)
Lot 18 WORKS FROM THE COLLECTION OF BROOKE AND CAROLYN ALEXANDER

ED RUSCHA (B. 1937)

Lisp

Closed14 March 2024

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ED RUSCHA (B. 1937)
Lisp
lithograph in colors, on Arches paper, 1970, signed and dated in pencil, numbered 13⁄90 (there were also 22 artist's proofs), co-published by Cirrus Editions and Brooke Alexander Editions, Los Angeles and New York, the full sheet, in generally very good condition
Sheet: 20 x 28 in. (508 x 711 mm.)

Specialist note

"Ruscha's 'liquid' prints of the early 1970s, in which the words appeared to be written with an aqueous material, are among his most successful combinations of verbal and visual imagery. In Lisp of 1970 the insubstantial hesitancy suggested by the meaning of the word is echoed by the dissipating form of the letter."

Publication excerpt from The Prints of Cirrus Editions in the Context of Art in Los Angeles since 1970 by Dr. Bruce Davis, in Made in L.A.: The Prints of Cirrus Editions, p. 28.