Contemporary Evening Auction

Contemporary Evening Auction

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Property from a Notable Private Collection

Ed Ruscha

Radio [#1]

Guaranteed PropertyIrrevocable Bids

Auction Closed

May 19, 12:05 AM GMT

Estimate

2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Notable Private Collection

Ed Ruscha

b. 1937


Radio [#1]

signed and dated 63 (lower right) 

oil and black ink on paperboard mounted to canvas

14 ⅝ by 12 ¾ in.

37.1 by 32.4 cm.

Executed in 1963.

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Ulrike Kantor, Los Angeles (acquired from the artist)

Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Los Angeles, Kantor Gallery, Ed Ruscha: A Retrospective Exhibition, May - June 1996
New York, Craig F. Starr Gallery, Ed Ruscha: Ace Radio Honk Boss, October 2018 - January 2019, no. 6, pp. 12-13, 23, illustrated in color 
Lisa Turvey, ed., Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper, Volume One: 1956-1976, New York, 2014, no. D1963.33, p. 120, illustrated in color