NEW YORK, N.Y.- An important Surrealist-inspired painting by Ed Ruscha is among the many highlights to be offered in Christie’s sale of Post War and Contemporary Art at Rockefeller Center on November 8. Strange Catch for a Fresh Water Fish, painted in 1965, is estimated to fetch $3 to $4 million. Strange Catch for a Fresh Water Fish is a key work in a series of paintings Ruscha executed in the mid-1960s, in which his imagery calls to mind film noir or the often uncanny visions of another California artist, David Lynch. While Ruscha’s best-known compositions often evoke the vast skies, distant horizon lines and looming roadside billboards of the American West, the subject of this painting is a trophy fish, depicted at the top edge of a vast monochromatic backg-