Upload a new artwork

Artist name: * Please select artist
Website: Please enter your valid website address
Artwork title: * Please select artwork
Edition title: * Please enter edition title

New edition title: * Please enter edition title
Publisher name: * Please select publisher name

Initial price:

In
Please enter valid price value
Print type:
Add new print type:
Edition image:

Delete Image

Please select an image
JPG, GIF and PNG files only (Maximum size of 4MB)
Upload
Description:

Submit

Zoot Soot (Dedicated to the memory of Richard Duardo)

Added by admin

Zoot Soot (Dedicated to the memory of Richard Duardo) by Ed Ruscha

Artist

Ed Ruscha

Born in 1937 in Omaha, Nebraska, Edward Ruscha was raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where his family moved in 1941. In 1956 he moved to Los Angeles... More ›

Description

Add New Artwork +

"Zoot Soot (Dedicated to the memory of Richard Duardo)"
- 2019
- 35-Color Serigraph
- 15" x 16.75" (paper), 9.75" x 12.25" (image)
- Edition of 40
- Saunders Waterford W/C, White, 200lb HP, 425gsm
- Hand Deckled finish
- Modern Multiples Studio Chop

Modern Multiples presents a 35-color serigraph by contemporary American artist, Ed Ruscha. Nearly 5 years ago, LA art icon Richard Duardo, whose career was hugely influenced by Ruscha's since they met at Gemini GEL in 1978, passed away on 11/11/14. Just a couple months later, Bert Green Fine Art and Aardvark Letterpress released an Ed Ruscha edition on die cut handmade paper entitled "Zoot Soot (Dedicated to the Memory of Richard Duardo)". The edition sold out almost immediately.

Thanks to the excellent relationship between Bert Green Fine Art, Ed Ruscha's studio, and the team at Modern Multiples, this second interpretation of "Zoot Soot" is executed in consultation with Bert Green Fine Art.

This fact is instrumental in the narrative of this edition because the 35 color layers printed with hand mixed inks recreate in stunning 3-dimensionality a photograph of one of the "Zoot Soot" impressions from the 2015 edition. Mr. Ruscha then modified the photo with iconic L.A. palm trees and blue sky, and submitted it to Modern Multiples for proofing. A BAT ("Bon á Tirer", or "good to pull") was signed upon our very first presentation of proofs!