ED RUSCHA | CRENSHAW, ADAMS

Lot Closed

October 2, 04:06 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Estate of Patrick McCarthy

ED RUSCHA

b. 1937

CRENSHAW, ADAMS

signed and dated 1998

acrylic and graphite on lithograph

Sheet: 10 by 8⅛ in. (25.4 by 20.7 cm.)

Framed: 12⅝ by 10¾ in. (32 by 27.3 cm.)

Artwalk Benefit Auction, New York, 21 November 1999, Lot 18

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

“[Ruscha] adapts the Jefferson grid of American city-planning to the conceptual grid of European modernist painting and acknowledges the dissonance between them.”

(Dave Hickey, Ed Ruscha: Metro Plots, Gagosian Beverly Hills 1998, n.p.)