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Ed Ruscha

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Auction Closed

September 28, 08:29 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 400,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ed Ruscha

b. 1937

Me


signed and dated 1970 (lower left)

gunpowder and pastel on paper

11 ½ by 29 in.

29.2 by 73.7 cm.

Executed in 1970. 

Contract Graphics, Houston
Acquired from the above in 1971 by the present owner 
Fort Worth Art Center Museum, Contemporary American Art: Los Angeles (from Fort Worth-Dallas Collections), January - February 1972
New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Cotton Puffs, Q-Tips, Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha, June 2004 - May 2005, p. 17 (text) and pl. 92, p. 134, illustrated in color
Ed Ruscha, They Called Her Styrene, London 2000, n.p., illustrated in color 
Lisa Turvey, ed., Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper, Volume One: 1956-1976, New Haven 2014, no. D1970.57, p. 271, illustrated in color