The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Day Auction
The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Day Auction
The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined
Ed Ruscha
Life
Auction Closed
November 9, 06:24 PM GMT
Estimate
1,800,000 - 2,500,000 USD
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The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined
Ed Ruscha
b. 1937
Life
signed and dated 1984 (on the reverse)
oil and enamel on canvas
84⅛ by 48⅛ in.
213.7 by 122.2 cm.
Executed in 1984.
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in December 1986 by the present owner
Peter Plagens, "Ruscha's Landscape," Vanity Fair, February 1986, p. 91, illustrated in color
Robert Dean, ed., Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume Three: 1983-1987, New York, 2007, no. P1984.15, pp. 106-107, illustrated in color
Neil Chiragdin, "Fiddling with form and function in fonts," Queens Chronicle, 10 November 2016 (online)
Los Angeles, James Corcoran Gallery, New Paintings, January - February 1985
New York, Tanya Grunert Galerie, Edward Ruscha, September - October 1985
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Five Decades of Passion Part One: The Eye of the Collector, 1968-1988, January - April 2009
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Stream of the Unknown: Selections from the Collection, October 2010 - January 2011
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Language As Representation: John Baldessari, Nancy Dwyer, Barbara Kruger, Suzanne McClelland, Richard Prince and Ed Ruscha, September 2016 - August 2017