Lot 216
  • 216

Edward Ruscha

Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Ed Ruscha
  • Rusty Silencers
  • signed and dated 1979
  • pastel and graphite on Grumbacher paper
  • 23 1/8 by 29 1/8 in. 85 by 70 cm.

Provenance

Private Collection, Europe

Exhibited

London, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, Ed Ruscha: New Paintings and a Retrospective of Works on Paper, June - July 1998, p. 40, illustrated
Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art; Rome, Museo Nazionale Delle Arti Del XXI Secolo; Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Ed Ruscha, March 2004 - January 2005

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The colors are vibrant and the sheet is intact and pristine. There is a remnant of the artist's stencil observable in the first "S" of "Silencers". This work is affixed intermittently along the edges to an archival mat and is floating under Plexiglas. Framed in a blond wood frame.
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