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Property from a Private Collection

Ed Ruscha

House of Torment

Auction Closed

November 19, 09:47 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ed Ruscha

b. 1937

House of Torment


signed Edward Ruscha and dated 1976 (on the reverse)

pastel and spinach stain on paper

29¼ by 39½ in.

74.3 by 100.3 cm.

Executed in 1976.

Please note this work is signed Edward Ruscha and dated 1976 (on the reverse).
Ace Gallery, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above by the present owner
"A Novel Approach to Ed Ruscha," WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing & Beyond Beyond 6, no. 4, 1981, p. 37 illustrated
Ed Ruscha, They Called Her Styrene, London, 2000, illustrated in color
Robert Dean and Lisa Turvey, eds., Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper, Vol. 1: 1956-1976, New York, 2007, no. D1976.40, p. 429, illustrated in color