
Broken Glass with Shards
A master of visual language, Ed Ruscha presents a stark and graphic depiction of shattered glass, rendered in his signature precise and detached style using acrylic on museum board paper. The fragmented shards are arranged with a cool, cinematic tension, evoking themes of destruction, vulnerability, and the poetry found in everyday moments of breakage. Ruscha's meticulous technique transforms a simple act of fracture into a striking study of form, negative space, and the quiet drama of the mundane.
- Medium
- acrylic on museum board paper
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale
November 10, 2015
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