Contemporary Art Evening Auction
Contemporary Art Evening Auction
Property of a Distinguished Private Collector
ED RUSCHA | DO AZ I DO
Auction Closed
October 29, 12:08 AM GMT
Estimate
2,500,000 - 3,500,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Distinguished Private Collector
ED RUSCHA
b.1937
DO AZ I DO
signed and dated 1988 on the reverse; signed, titled, dated 1988, and variously inscribed on the stretcher bar
acrylic on canvas
55 by 74 in. 139.8 by 188 cm.
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
Helyn and Ralph Goldenberg, Los Angeles (acquired from the above)
Sotheby's, New York, 14 November 1991, Lot 181 (consigned by the above)
Takaya Iwasaki, Japan
Sotheby's, New York, 18 November 1998, Lot 331 (consigned by the above)
Georges Marciano, Los Angeles (acquired from the above sale)
Christie's, New York, 12 May 2005, Lot 270 (consigned by the above)
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale
Victoria Lautman, "Hot Property," Chicago Tribune, 26 April 1989, p. 21, illustrated
Ed Ruscha and Alexandra Schwartz, Eds., Leave Any Information at the Signal: Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages, Cambridge 2004, pp. 286-287, 435 (text)
Robert Dean and Lisa Turvey, Eds., Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume Four, 1988-1992, New York 2009, pp. 94-95, no. P1988.37, illustrated in color