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72 Institutions
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Previous Sales 278

For Sale 13

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May 2026 · $889K
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Paintings: $785K medianWorks on paper: $323K medianPhotographs: $7.6K medianSculpture/objects: $1.6M medianEditioned prints: $12.0K medianBooks/portfolios: $3.8K medianPosters/ephemera: $1.3K medianUnclassified lots: $8.8K median
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Galleries2

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Publications26

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Catalogue Raisonné 4

Ed Ruscha Author
Steidl · 2017
Yale University Press · 2016
Steidl · 2014

Monograph 4

Yale University Press · 2015
Steidl · 2013
MIT Press · 2010
MIT Press · 2004

Exhibition Catalog 10

Group Catalog 1

Survey 4

Artist Book 3

Rizzoli · 2021
Ed Ruscha Author
Rizzoli · 2020
Phaidon Press · 2000
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Current Exhibitions1

Landscapes, Cityscapes, Waterscapes and Skyscapes: paintings, works on paper and prints

Helen Frankenthaler, Damien Hirst, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, David Hockney, Wolf Kahn, Ai Weiwei, Peter Saul, Marsden Hartley, Paul Resika, Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Richard Serra, Cy Twombly, Alex Katz, Richard Estes, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, FAILE, Mark di Suvero, Allan D'Arcangelo, Jennifer Losch Bartlett, Peter Blake, Christo, Peter Max, Sonia Gechtoff, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Martin Creed, Jonas Wood, Gregory Amenoff, Joe Brainard, Red Grooms, Billy Al Bengston, April Gornik, Gerald Laing, Paula Scher, Michael Lekakis, Paul Feeley, William T. Wiley, John Button, Hyde Solomon, Howard Kanovitz, George Trakas, Asa Cheffetz, Lynton Wells, Melissa Miller, Milton Glaser, Bob Stanley, Walter Darby Bannard, Katherine Porter, Lois Dodd, Richard Haas, Thelma Appel, Alan Cote, Norman Carton, Ben Wilson, Edward Giobbi, Franz Eggenschwiler, Javacheff Christo, David Shapiro (b. 1922), Kathan Brown, William Waitzman, Helen Siegl

Showplace Design and Antique Center, 40 W 25th St 2nd floor, New York, NY 10010, United States

Jun 12, 2026 — Sep 10, 2026

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A new exhibition titled "Pasadena: L.A.'s Art Legacy" opens at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in Pasadena, featuring 70 works by nearly 60 artists. The show h…
exhibitionsJun 7, 2026
In Marble Falls, Texas, a new gallery called Arthouse has opened, housing the extensive private art collection of Mickey and Jeanne Klein. The couple,…
exhibitionsJun 3, 2026
Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in Pasadena presents "Pasadena: L.A.'s Art Legacy," an exhibition opening June 7 and running through August 29. Featuring nearl…
exhibitionsJun 3, 2026
Hyperallergic's summer guide highlights 15 art shows across Los Angeles, featuring exhibitions that challenge the status quo. Highlights include Jon R…
exhibitionsJun 2, 2026
Jeff Koons maintains a complex and ubiquitous presence in New York City, characterized by a tension between high-art prestige and pop-culture spectacl…
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The Amarillo Museum of Art (AMoA) is opening an exhibition titled 'Ed Ruscha + Ron Cooper: Stations Words | Bars Cars' on May 30, celebrating the 100t…
exhibitionsMay 28, 2026
The Wildenstein Plattner Institute (WPI) has released a new digital catalogue raisonné for French painter Eva Gonzalès, correcting long-standing misat…
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Christie's New York spring sales opened on May 20, 2026, with two major collections: the minimalist art collection of Henry S. McNeil Jr. and works by…
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Christie’s held a two-part evening sale on May 20, featuring 42 lots from the estate of dealer Marian Goodman and the single-owner collection of Henry…
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Christie’s 21st-century evening sale in New York on Wednesday achieved $162.7 million, its highest total in the category since 2021. The sale featured…
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Christie’s New York held a trio of postwar and contemporary art evening sales on Wednesday night, totaling $162.7 million with fees, just meeting expe…
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Jean-Michel Basquiat's 1983 painting 'Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown)' sold for US$52.7 million at Sotheby's Now and Contemporary Evening Auction …
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Ed Ruscha's 2014 lithograph "Angel" is being offered for sale through Leslie Sacks Gallery in Santa Monica. The work is a unique color trial proof fro…
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The Oklahoma Arts Council has announced a historic gift of artworks for the Oklahoma State Art Collection. The donation, described as one of the large…
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Sotheby's held two major evening sales in New York—the Mnuchin collection sale and The Now & Contemporary Evening Auction—generating a combined $433.1…
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Director Barry Avrich is producing an unauthorized documentary titled "Shadow Man: Inside The Secret World of Larry Gagosian" about the legendary art …
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) closed its newly opened David Geffen Galleries just days after their official debut to host a Dior fashio…
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The article reports on the opening of the 61st Venice Biennale, highlighting the central exhibition "In Minor Keys" conceived by the late Koyo Kouoh, …
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Sotheby's evening auction in New York on May 13, 2025, realized $407.5 million ($433.1m with fees), led by Mark Rothko's "Brown and Blacks in Reds" (1…
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An unauthorized documentary about mega-gallerist Larry Gagosian is in the works, directed by Barry Avrich, who previously helmed the Netflix hit "Made…
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Past Exhibitions48

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Landscapes, Cityscapes, Waterscapes and Skyscapes: paintings, works on paper and prints

Helen Frankenthaler, Damien Hirst, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, David Hockney, Wolf Kahn, Peter Saul, Marsden Hartley, Paul Resika, Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Richard Serra, Cy Twombly, Alex Katz, Richard Estes, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, FAILE, Mark di Suvero, Allan D'Arcangelo, Jennifer Losch Bartlett, Peter Blake, Christo, Peter Max, Sonia Gechtoff, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Martin Creed, Jonas Wood, Gregory Amenoff, Joe Brainard, Red Grooms, Billy Al Bengston, April Gornik, Gerald Laing, Paula Scher, Michael Lekakis, Paul Feeley, William T. Wiley, John Button, Hyde Solomon, Howard Kanovitz, George Trakas, Asa Cheffetz, Lynton Wells, Milton Glaser, Bob Stanley, Walter Darby Bannard, Katherine Porter, Lois Dodd, Richard Haas, Thelma Appel, Alan Cote, Norman Carton, Ben Wilson, Edward Giobbi, Franz Eggenschwiler, Javacheff Christo, David Shapiro (b. 1922), Kathan Brown, William Waitzman, Helen Siegl

Showplace Design and Antique Center, 40 W 25th St 2nd floor, New York, NY 10010, United States

Mar 12, 2026 — May 27, 2026

Expressions of Language and Ed Ruscha

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20 Hawthorne St

Feb 4, 2026 — Mar 27, 2026

Ed Ruscha: Talking Doorways

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9 rue de Ponthieu, 75008 Paris, France

Oct 22, 2025 — Dec 3, 2025

Says I, to Myself, Says I

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20 Grosvenor Hill, London W1K 3QD, United Kingdom

Oct 14, 2025 — Dec 19, 2025

Foyer Installation: Pop Art

Robert Indiana, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, Edward Ruscha

4011 Yupon St, Houston, TX 77006, USA

Aug 20, 2025 — Mar 29, 2026

Foyer Installation: Pop Art August 20, 2025–March 29, 2026 Main Building

Ed Ruscha Cityscapes

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6 Rue Jacob, 75006 Paris, France

May 23, 2025 — Jun 28, 2025

FIGURE IT

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Nybrogatan 20

Apr 16, 2025 — May 31, 2025

Bouquets to Art 2025

Isaac Julien, Rudy Autio, Howard Ben Tré, Lino Tagliapietra, Dale Chihuly, Nicolas Africano, Mary Ann “Toots” Zynsky, Ed Ruscha, Charles Green Shaw, Balcomb Greene, Florine Stettheimer, George C. Ault

50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA

Jan 1, 2025

Bouquets to Art 2025 Jun 3 – Jun 8, 2025 de Young Legion of Honor

ED RUSCHA AT CIRRUS EDITIONS

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2011 South Santa Fe Avenue

Jul 20, 2024 — Sep 14, 2024

Ed Ruscha | ICONography

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2525 Michigan Ave b6, Santa Monica, CA 90404, United States

Apr 27, 2024 — Jul 26, 2024

Ed Ruscha Works on Paper

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5 E 73rd St, New York, NY 10021, USA

Nov 2, 2023 — Jan 31, 2024

ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN A Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art

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534 W 21st St, New York, NY 10011, USA

Sep 15, 2023 — Dec 14, 2023

Printworks: Recent Gifts from the Archives

Tomma Abts, Ed Ruscha, Tauba Auerbach, Jacqueline Humphries, Shahzia Sikander, David Huffman, Kenny Scharf, Edward Ruscha

100 34th Ave, San Francisco, CA 94121, USA

Jan 1, 2023

Printworks: Recent Gifts from the Archives Apr 1 – Oct 1, 2023 de Young Exhibition

Tom Sawyer Paintings

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9 rue de Ponthieu, 75008 Paris, France

Oct 19, 2022 — Dec 22, 2022

Ed Ruscha: Made in California

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Mar 10, 2022 — Apr 14, 2022

Ed Ruscha Dedication Stones

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555 W 24th St, New York, NY 10011, United States

Jul 16, 2021 — Sep 26, 2021

Ed Ruscha Paintings

555 W 24th St, New York, NY 10011, USA

Nov 14, 2020 — Jan 23, 2021

Ed Ruscha: Six Decades of Printmaking

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41 E 57th St 2nd floor, New York, NY 10022, USA

Sep 1, 2019 — Oct 27, 2019

Ed Ruscha | Intersections

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2525 Michigan Ave b6, Santa Monica, CA 90404, United States

Jan 12, 2019 — Feb 23, 2019

Ed Ruscha Ace Radio Honk Boss

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5 E 73rd St, New York, NY 10021, USA

Oct 19, 2018 — Jan 17, 2019

Ed Ruscha: Archaeology and Romance

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The University of Texas at Austin, 300 W 21st St, Austin, TX 78712, USA

Aug 11, 2018 — Jan 6, 2019

Ed Ruscha — August 11, 2018 – January 6, 2019

Ed Ruscha at Gemini G.E.L.: Selected Works

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535 W 24th St, New York, NY 10011, United States

Feb 2, 2017 — Mar 18, 2017

Ed Ruscha: Ribbon Words

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980 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10075, USA

May 6, 2016 — Jul 1, 2016

Ed Ruscha | Editions

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2525 Michigan Ave b6, Santa Monica, CA 90404, United States

Apr 9, 2016 — May 14, 2016

Ed Ruscha: I'm Amazed

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Jan 10, 2013 — Feb 23, 2013

Nice, Hot Vegetables: Ed Ruscha Works on Paper

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1018 Madison Ave Floor 2, New York, NY 10075, USA

Oct 6, 2011 — Nov 19, 2011

Ed Ruscha. Œuvres sur papier

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8 Rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris, France

Oct 15, 2008 — Nov 15, 2008

WALL ROCKETS: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha

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545 W 25th St #9, New York, NY 10001, USA

Oct 3, 2008 — Jan 1, 2009

Ed Ruscha Gunpowder Ribbon Drawings

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5 E 73rd St, New York, NY 10021, USA

Oct 24, 2007 — Dec 15, 2007

Rooftops and Vacant Parking Lots

Ed Ruscha

30 Rue Beaubourg, 75003 Paris, France

May 4, 2006 — Jun 3, 2006

Ed Ruscha Selected Works

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980 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10075, USA

May 6, 2005 — Jun 30, 2005

Ed Ruscha Standard Stations

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5 E 73rd St, New York, NY 10021, USA

Feb 24, 2005 — Apr 16, 2005

Ed Ruscha Parking Lots and Swimming Pools

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30 Rue Beaubourg, 75003 Paris, France

Jan 21, 2004 — Apr 20, 2004

Country Cityscapes

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2011 South Santa Fe Avenue

Jun 1, 2003 — Aug 10, 2003

Ed Ruscha: Birds, Fish and Offspring

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45 E 78th St, New York, NY 10075, USA

Apr 25, 2002 — Jun 8, 2002

Ed Ruscha Works from the 60s and 70s

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1018 Madison Ave Floor 2, New York, NY 10075, USA

Nov 5, 1998 — Dec 5, 1998

Ed Ruscha Cityscapes / O Books

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18 E 77th St, New York, NY 10075, USA

May 3, 1997 — May 31, 1997

Ed Ruscha "Sayings" From Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson

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18 E 77th St, New York, NY 10075, USA

Sep 16, 1995 — Oct 14, 1995

Ed Ruscha Anamorphic Paintings

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18 E 77th St, New York, NY 10075, USA

Apr 1, 1995 — Apr 22, 1995

Drawings Through The Years

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2011 South Santa Fe Avenue

Dec 8, 1987 — Jan 30, 1988

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18 E 77th St, New York, NY 10075, USA

Mar 3, 1984 — Mar 31, 1984

Ed Ruscha New Drawings

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18 E 77th St, New York, NY 10075, USA

Jun 19, 1982 — Jul 30, 1982

Ed Ruscha New Lithographs

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2011 South Santa Fe Avenue

May 7, 1974 — Jun 14, 1974

Ed Ruscha Graphics from the Collection of Donald Marron

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18 E 77th St, New York, NY 10075, USA

Dec 15, 1973 — Jan 19, 1974

Ed Ruscha Colored People Book Launch

Ed Ruscha

18 E 77th St, New York, NY 10075, USA

Nov 14, 1972 — Nov 14, 1972

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Art Fair Appearances35

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Art Basel — Basel
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Frieze Los Angeles — Los Angeles
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Art Basel — Basel
2025
Frieze New York — New York
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The Armory Show — New York
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Art Basel Miami Beach — Miami Beach
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EXPO CHICAGO — Chicago
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Paris Photo — Paris
2024
The Armory Show — New York
2024
Art Basel — Basel
2023
Art Basel Miami Beach — Miami Beach
2023
Frieze New York — New York
2023
The Armory Show — New York
2023
Art Basel — Basel
2022
EXPO CHICAGO — Chicago
2022
Seattle Art Fair — Seattle
2022
The Armory Show — New York
2022
The Armory Show — New York
2021
Untitled: San Francisco — San Francisco
2020
Art Basel Miami Beach — Miami Beach
2019
Art Basel Miami Beach — Miami Beach
2018
Seattle Art Fair — Seattle
2018
Art Basel Miami Beach — Miami Beach
2017
The Armory Show — New York
2017
Untitled: San Francisco — San Francisco
2017
Art Basel — Basel
2016
Art Basel Miami Beach — Miami Beach
2016
EXPO CHICAGO — Chicago
2016
Paris Photo — Paris
2016
Seattle Art Fair — Seattle
2016
Art Basel — Basel
2015
Art Basel Miami Beach — Miami Beach
2015
EXPO CHICAGO — Chicago
2015
The Armory Show — New York
2015
The Armory Show — New York
2014
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