The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Evening Auction

The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Evening Auction

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November 9, 12:13 AM GMT

Estimate

10,000,000 - 15,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ed Ruscha

(b. 1937)


Mint (Green) 

signed and dated 1968 (on the reverse) 

oil on canvas

60 by 55 in. 152.4 by 139.7 cm.

Executed in 1968. 

Alexander Iolas, New York

Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York 

Private Collection  

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (LC# ER 46) 

Acquired from the above in February 1988 by the present owner

Carter Ratcliff, "Reviews, New York: Edward Ruscha, Iolas," Art International, March 1970, pp. 71, illustrated 

Pat Poncy, ed., Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume One: 1958-1970, New York, 2003, no. P1968.17, pp. 290-291, illustrated in color 

Richard D. Marshall, Ed Ruscha, London and New York, 2003, pp. 54-55, illustrated in color 

Pierre Sterckx, 50 géants de l'art américains: Comment New York à détrôné l'Europe, Paris, 2007, pp. 202-203, illustrated in color

New York, Alexander Iolas Gallery, Edward Ruscha: Paintings, January - February 1970, no. 7, p. 21, illustrated in color and p. 34

Santa Monica, James Corcoran Gallery, The Early Show: California Art from the Sixties and Seventies, 1987 (illustrated in color on the announcement) 

New York, Gagosian Gallery, Edward Ruscha: Romance with Liquids, Paintings 1966-1969, January - February 1993, pp. 68-69, illustrated in color

New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Edward Ruscha, 2001 

New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Ed Ruscha: Paintings, 1962-2002, April 2003 - March 2005 

New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Stream of the Unknown: Selections from the Collection, February - April 2011 

New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Language As Representation, September 2016 - August 2017