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The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined

Ed Ruscha

Drugs, Hardware, Barber, Video

Auction Closed

March 1, 09:28 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined

Ed Ruscha

b. 1937


Drugs, Hardware, Barber, Video

signed and dated 1987 (on the reverse)

acrylic on canvas

72 by 72 in.

182.9 by 182.9 cm.

Executed in 1987.

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York and Robert Miller Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in November 1987 by the present owner

Kim Levin, "Artwalk: Ed Ruscha," The Village Voice, vol. XXXII, no. 47, 24 November 1987, p. 101, illustrated

Donald Kuspit, "Edward Ruscha: Robert Miller Gallery" Artforum, February 1988, vol. XXVI, p. 145, illustrated

Robert Mahoney, "Fictions: Ed Ruscha," Arts Magazine, vol. 62, no. 6, February 1988, p. 109

Ralph Rugoff, "The Last Word," ARTnews, December 1989, vol. 88, no. 10, p. 123 and p. 124, illustrated in color

Donald Kuspit, "Signs in Suspense: Ed Ruscha's Liquidation of Meaning," Arts, April 1991, vol. 65, no. 8, p. 58

Howard Singerman, "Ed Ruscha's Modern Language," Parkett 55, 1999, p. 53, illustrated in color

Larisa Dryansky, "Images stéréo: L'illusion dans l'œuvre de Ed Ruscha," Les Cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne, Spring 2007, no. 99, p. 47, illustrated

Robert Dean and Erin Wright, eds., Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, 1983-1987, vol. 3, New York 2007, no. P187.44, pp. 358-59, illustrated in color

New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Ed Ruscha, November 1987

Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Edward Ruscha, December 1989 - February 1990, no. 43, illustrated in color (on the cover)

Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Edward Ruscha, March - April 1990, no. 39, p. 97, illustrated in color

Barcelona, Fundació Caixa de Pensions; London, Serptentine Gallery; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Edward Ruscha, May 1990 - February 1991, no. 39, p. 107, illustrated in color

New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Articulations: Forms of Language in Contemporary Art, May - June 1995

Le Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon 2003, It Happened Tomorrow, September 2003 - January 2004, p. 209, illustrated in color