The emblematic, seminal work is expected to garner in excess of $50 million as part of the 20th Century Evening Sale.
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Why is this 'generational' painting of an Texas gas station estimated to sell for more than $50 million?Ed Ruscha painted an Amarillo gas station 60 years ago. That painting, "Standard Station, Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half ...
Christie's pursued what it called a "masterpiece" strategy. It paid off, though the result was below last year's.
The evening also highlighted how careful orchestration of guarantees and irrevocable bids can stave off those awkward moments ...
Sotheby's contemporary evening sale pulled in a total of $112.3 million. The result is 64 percent less than the same sales ...
Darkened trees pierce into white cumulus clouds lingering in a pastel-blue sky, as we gaze intently at a street scene ...
Move over, Picasso, van Gogh and Warhol. With an inscrutable painting, the Belgian painter breaks a nine-figure threshold at ...
Christie's is hoping that with the Magritte and a celebrated 1964 painting of a gas station by the 86-year-old American pop ...
The interior designer Mica Ertegun's Surrealist L'empire des lumières sold for a record $121.1m in New York last night, with ...
Ed Ruscha is an American artist whose oeuvre melds Pop Art iconography with the documentarian rigor of Conceptual Art. With a practice that spans drawing, painting, photography, film, printmaking, and ...
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