I Have to Stay at Home
I Have to Stay at Home
ED RUSCHA | THE END #45
Lot Closed
May 28, 01:31 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
ED RUSCHA
b. 1937
THE END #45
signed and dated 2004 ; titled on the reverse
acrylic and ink on museum board
60.6 by 76.2 cm. 23⅞by 30 in.
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Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
Private Collection
Max Lang, New York
Private Collection
Sotheby’s, New York, May 13, 2009, lot 191
L & M Arts, New York
Private Collection
Phillips, New York, 13 November 2019, Lot 165
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exh. Cat., Claremont, Pomona College Museum of Art, Ed Ruscha / Raymond Pettibon: The Holy Bible and The End, 2006, p. 13, illustrated
“If I’m influenced by the movies, it’s from way down underneath, not just on the surface. A lot of my paintings are anonymous backdrops for the drama of words. In a way they’re words in front of the old Paramount mountain... I have a background, foreground. It’s so simple. And the backgrounds are of no particular character. They’re just meant to support the drama."
Ed Rucscha cited in Exh. Cat., Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cotton Puffs, Q-Tips, Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha, 2004-05, p. 21)