The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Evening Auction
The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Evening Auction
Plenty Big Hotel Room (Painting for the American Indian)
Auction Closed
November 9, 12:13 AM GMT
Estimate
5,000,000 - 7,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Ed Ruscha
(b. 1937)
Plenty Big Hotel Room (Painting for the American Indian)
signed and dated 85 (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
84 by 60 in. 213.4 by 152.4 cm.
Executed in 1985.
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (LC# ER 235)
Acquired from the above in March 1987 by the present owner
Vivien Raynor, "Review: Leo Castelli," The New York Times, 14 February 1986, p. C31
Dave Hickey, "The Song of the Giant Egress," Ed Ruscha: New Paintings and Drawings, London 1990, p. 11
Rolf Lauter, "A European Look at American Art: The Whitney Museum of American Art New York is Guest of Frankfurt's Museum of Modern Art," ARTkaleidoscope, February - May 1997, p. 6, illustrated in color
Edgar Otte, ed., "Views from Abroad," Vogue Deutsch, May 1997, p. 8, illustrated in color
Richard D. Marshall, Ed Ruscha, London, 2003, p. 197 illustrated in color
Robert Dean, ed., Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume Three: 1983-1987, New York, 2007, no. P1985.16, pp. 154-155, illustrated in color
New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Edward Ruscha, February - March 1986
New York, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, What It Is, September - October 1986, n.p., illustrated
Mexico City, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Leo Castelli y Sus Artistas: XXX Años de Promoción del Arte Contemporaneo, June - October 1987, no. 138, p. 171, illustrated in color and p. 279
Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou; Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen; Barcelona, Centre Cultural de la Fundacio Caixa de Pensions; London, Serpentine Gallery; and Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; Edward Ruscha, December 1989 - February 1991, no. 26, p. 49, illustrated in color and p. 79 (Paris); no. 23, pp. 64-65, illustrated in color and p. 124 (Rotterdam, London, and Los Angeles); and no. 23, pp. 86-87, illustrated in color and p. 139 (Barcelona)
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Articulations: Forms of Language in Contemporary Art, May - June 1995, p. 8, illustrated and p. 30
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; and Frankfurt, Museum für Moderne Kunst; Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art 2, October 1996 - May 1997, p. 71, illustrated in color
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Ed Ruscha: Paintings and Works on Paper, 1964-2002, April 2003 - March 2005
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Fighting Words: Voices of Dissent: Social, Political and Environmental Statements, February - April 2008
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Visual Conversations: Selections from the Collection, September - April 2013
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Literary Devices, October 2014 - March 2015