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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Auction result
Tropical Fish Series
Ed Ruscha (American, b. 1937) · 1975
Unsold / did not meet reserve
Estimate $9,000 – $12,000 (≈ £5,572 – £7,429) (≈ €6,529 – €8,706)
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
- Screenprint · Prints & multiples all screenprint results →As published: “The complete set of five screenprints in colours with lacquer overprint, on Arches 88 paper, the full sheets”
- Support
- Paper
- Edition
- 50/56
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed and numbered 50/56 · Ed Ruscha signature
- Category
- Screenprints
- Dimensions
- all S. 65.4 x 83.2 cm (25 3/4 x 32 3/4 in.) one vertical
- Auction house
- Phillips
- Sale
- Evening & Day Editions (NY030113)
- Date
- October 28, 2013
- Location
- New York
- Lot
- 246
- Estimate
- $9,000 – $12,000 (≈ £5,572 – £7,429) (≈ €6,529 – €8,706)
- Source
- Auction house phillips.com ↗Retrieved Sep 27, 2026
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