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A Life of Beauty: The Collection of John Cheim

Ed Ruscha

Black Hostess

Auction Closed

November 16, 11:16 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A Life of Beauty: The Collection of John Cheim

Ed Ruscha

b. 1937


Black Hostess

signed and dated 1986 (lower right)

dry pigment and acrylic on paper

60⅛ by 40¼ in.

152.7 by 102.2 cm.

Executed in 1986.

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in 1987 by the present owner
Edward Ruscha, "Drawings," Paris Review, issue 29, no. 103, Summer 1987, p. 120, illustrated
Thomas Beller, "Ed Ruscha," Splash, New York, 1989, n.p., illustrated in color
Lisa Turvey, Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper, Volume Two: 1977-1997, New York and New Haven, 2018, no. D1986.13, p. 240, illustrated in color
Munich, Westfälischer Kunstverein, 4 x 6: Zeichnungen von Edward Ruscha, June - August 1986, n.p., illustrated in color
New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Ed Ruscha: New Paintings, November 1987
New York, Craig Cornelius Gallery, Moskowitz, Ruscha, Therrien, April - May 1989
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art and Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Cotton Puffs, Q-Tips®, Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha, June 2004 - May 2005, no. 175, p. 216, illustrated in color