Lot 192
  • 192

Ed Ruscha

Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
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Description

  • Ed Ruscha
  • Little Black Girl
  • signed and dated 1986; titled on the reverse
  • dry pigment on paper
  • 60 1/8 by 40 1/8 in. 152.7 by 102 cm.
  • This work will be included in a forthcoming volume of Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper.

Provenance

Lorence Monk Gallery, New York
Christie's, New York, November 21, 1996, lot 338
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

Exhibited

New York, Lorence Monk Gallery, Life Like, June 1988

Literature

Christopher Knight, “Against Type: The Silhouette Paintings of Edward Ruscha,” Parkett, No. 8, 1988, p. 90, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. There is scattered foxing to the extreme edges of the sheet. The sheet is hinged verso to the matte. Framed under Plexiglas.
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