Signed first edition of Ruscha's last solo photobook to use the minimal 'house style' made famous by TWENTYSIX GASOLINE STATIONS and other early works.
Fine.
Price: $3,500.00
"If there is any facet of my work that I feel was kissed by angels [...] I'd say it was my books." — Ruscha quoted in Bourdon
The 25 black and white photographs of REAL ESTATE OPPORTUNITIES frequently include "For Sale" signs, recalling Ruscha's early life as an aspiring commercial artist who "learned sign-painting techniques and painted many commercial signs, including For Sale signs" (Phillpot). Properties pictured, captioned with their addresses, include houses, residential lots, and forlorn stretches of barren land whose only neighbors are the telephone poles and roads of southern California. Uncommon signed.
Read more: Engberg & Phillpot, Catalogue Raisonné, B12; Bourdon, "Ruscha as Publisher [Or All Booked Up]."
First printing. n.p. [Los Angeles]: Edward Ruscha, 1970. 7'' x 5.5''. Original white printed wrappers. Lacking glassine jacket. Edition of 4,000 unnumbered copies. 25 black and white photographic illustrations. [48] pages. Signed by Ruscha in pencil on front free endpaper. PROVENANCE: From the collection of longtime MIT Press editor Roger Conover, who published several books by and about Ruscha. Minimal edgewear.
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