Lot 114
  • 114

Ed Ruscha

Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
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Description

  • Ed Ruscha
  • Papers
  • signed and dated 1972
  • gunpowder on paper
  • 23 by 29 in. 58.4 by 73.7 cm.

Provenance

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Private Collection, Montreal
Lewis Kaplan, London
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles
Robert A. Rowan, Pasadena (acquired from the above in 1987)
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Ed Ruscha: Drawings, February 1973
Los Angeles, Margo Leavin Gallery, Drawings, April - May 1974

Literature

Lisa Turvey, Ed., Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on PaperVolume One: 1956-1976, New York 2014, cat. no. D1972.42, p. 319, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. There is a slight undulation to the sheet, inherent to the artist's working method, and the edges of the sheet have discolored lightly with age. The sheet is hinged verso to the mat intermittently along the top edge. Framed under Plexiglas.
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Catalogue Note

"I found out that it is important for objects to be their actual size in my paintings. If I do a painting of a pencil or magazine or fly or pills, I feel some sort of responsibility to paint them natural size—I get out the ruler." Ed Ruscha