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Edward Ruscha (born 1937); Roof Top View 6; image 1
Edward Ruscha (born 1937); Roof Top View 6; image 2
Lot 4

Edward Ruscha
(born 1937)
Roof Top View #6

Amended
6 April 2023, 13:00 EDT
New York

US$12,000 - US$15,000

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Edward Ruscha (born 1937)

Roof Top View #6, 1961
Gelatin silver print, printed 2003; signed, dated and numbered '4/8' in pencil on the verso, a Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, label on the frame verso.
10 x 10 in. (25.5 x 25.5 cm.)

Footnotes

Provenance
Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
Private collection, Los Angeles
Acquired by bequest from the above to the present owner

Saleroom notices

This work is from a series of photographs that Ed Ruscha made in 1961. Each image documents the neighborhood near the Carson-Roberts Advertising Agency where he worked as a layout artist after his graduation from Chouinard Art Institute. Located between North Flores Street and Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles, Ruscha would often take photographs from the roof of the office building during his lunch hour. Rooftop View #6 is a harbinger of the architectural and landscape themes he continued to explore in the later 1960s in projects such as Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1963), Some Los Angeles Apartment Buildings (1965), and Every Building on the Sunset Strip (1966).

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