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Ed Ruscha — Actual Size
Ed Ruscha

Actual Size

Ed Ruscha's "Actual Size" (2024) employs UV pigment print combined with yellow screenprint and matte varnish to create a work that plays with perception and materiality on a monumental scale. The piece references Ruscha's long engagement with language, representation, and the gap between signification and reality, rendered here through sophisticated printing techniques on premium Somerset paper. Published by Avant Arte in collaboration with LACMA, this work exemplifies the artist's continued exploration of how scale and medium shape our understanding of the everyday.

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UV pigment print in colours with screenprint in yellow and matte varnish, 2024, numbered from the total edition of 1863 in pencil, printed and published by Avant Arte, Amsterdam, in association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, on Somerset Tub Sized Radiant White paper, with full margins, sheet 660 x 620mm (26 x 24 3/8in) (unframed), Condition, Related Lots, BACK TO AUCTION CATALOGUE, Vija Celmins (b.1938) Spider's Web, Estimate: £3,000 - 5,000, Tracey Emin (b.1963) Docket the Cat (Mono

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Prints & Works on Paper 1500-2026

March 31, 2026

Lot 112

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Ed Ruscha, Actual Size

Ed Ruscha's "Actual Size" (2024) employs UV pigment print combined with yellow screenprint and matte varnish to create a work that plays with perception and materiality on a monumental scale. The piece references Ruscha's long engagement with language, representation, and the gap between signification and reality, rendered here through sophisticated printing techniques on premium Somerset paper. Published by Avant Arte in collaboration with LACMA, this work exemplifies the artist's continued exploration of how scale and medium shape our understanding of the everyday.

Medium
UV pigment print in colours with screenprint in yellow and matte varnish, 2024, numbered from the total edition of 1863 in pencil, printed and published by Avant Arte, Amsterdam, in association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, on Somerset Tub Sized Radiant White paper, with full margins, sheet 660 x 620mm (26 x 24 3/8in) (unframed), Condition, Related Lots, BACK TO AUCTION CATALOGUE, Vija Celmins (b.1938) Spider's Web, Estimate: £3,000 - 5,000, Tracey Emin (b.1963) Docket the Cat (Mono
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Forum Auctions, London, UK

Related themes

20th Century, Word Art, Conceptual Art, American Artist, Typography, Pop Art, Language and representation, Lithograph, Humorous, Ironic

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Alex Capecelatro