Photo © Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) — view this lot on Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) ↗Hot Air Being Blown, 1982
Etching · Paper
Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) · Sep 10, 2026$5,120 ≈ £3,787 ≈ €4,408Sign up free to see price
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Then & Now
Ed Ruscha (American, b. 1937) · 2005
Unsold / did not meet reserve
Estimate £20,000 – £30,000 (≈ $27,088 – $40,632) (≈ €22,991 – €34,487)
Offered at Phillips and passed / bought in. Counted in the artist’s sell-through rate; no price, so not in price averages.
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- Medium
- Photograph · Photography all photograph results →As published: “142 gelatin silver prints, in artist's wooden box”
- Edition
- 4/10
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed 'Ed Ruscha' on the front cover; signed and numbered 'Ed Ruscha 4/10' on an artist label affixed to the interior of the wooden box; stamped with the artis · Ed Ruscha signature
- Category
- Photographs
- Dimensions
- each print 70.1 x 100 cm (27 5/8 x 39 3/8 in.) wooden box 74.6 x 104.4 x 6.9 cm (29 3/8 x 41 1/8 x 2 3/4 in.)
- Auction house
- Phillips
- Sale
- Modern & Contemporary Art (UK010126)
- Date
- April 16, 2026
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Lot
- 110
- Estimate
- £20,000 – £30,000 (≈ $27,088 – $40,632) (≈ €22,991 – €34,487)
- Source
- Auction house phillips.com ↗Retrieved Sep 27, 2026
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