Lot 526
  • 526

Sterling Ruby

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Sterling Ruby
  • Artaud
  • signed, dated 2007 and numbered 2/3 on a label affixed to the backing board
  • Lambda print mounted to Plexiglas
  • 64 by 48 in. 162.5 by 121.9 cm.

Provenance

Metro Pictures, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2007

Exhibited

New York, Metro Pictures, Killing the Recondite, April - June 2007
Annandale-on-Hudson, Bard College, Hessel Museum of Art, At Home/Not at Home: Works from the Collection of Martin & Rebecca Eisenberg, June - December 2010

Literature

Exh. Cat., GAMeC—Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Sterling Ruby: GRID RIPPER, 2009, cat. no. 141. p. 141, illustrated in color (another example illustrated)

Condition

This work is in good condition overall. There are scattered abrasions on the surface of the Plexiglas, the most noticeable of which are vertical abrasions along the right edge, extending from the top right corner downwards. Face-mounted to Plexiglas and framed.
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