
Six Ear Drawings (Complementary Colors)
John Baldessari's conceptual work featuring six ear drawings rendered in complementary colors. The signed and numbered prints were published by Edition Jacob Samuel in Santa Monica.
- Medium
- All signed and numbered 3/25 in pencil (there were also 2 artist's proofs), published by Edition Jacob Samuel, Santa Monica (with their blindstamp).
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
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Editions & Works on Paper
July 24, 2020
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Ed Ruscha
American · b. 1937

Ruscha shares Baldessari's conceptual approach to mundane subjects rendered with deadpan clarity, often working in series with limited edition prints that emphasize language and everyday imagery over expressive mark making.

Lawrence Weiner
American · b. 1942

Weiner's conceptual print editions similarly reduce art to its most essential communicative form, using seriality and systematic repetition to question the nature of representation and artistic authorship in numbered edition works.

Bruce Nauman
American · b. 1941

Nauman frequently isolates body parts including ears as conceptual subjects in prints and drawings, exploring anatomy with clinical detachment and systematic repetition that closely mirrors Baldessari's approach in this series.
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