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The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined

Ed Ruscha

Life

Auction Closed

November 9, 06:24 PM GMT

Estimate

1,800,000 - 2,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined

Ed Ruscha

b. 1937


Life

signed and dated 1984 (on the reverse)

oil and enamel on canvas

84⅛ by 48⅛ in.

213.7 by 122.2 cm.

Executed in 1984.

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York 

Acquired from the above in December 1986 by the present owner

Los Angeles, James Corcoran Gallery, New Paintings, January - February 1985

New York, Tanya Grunert Galerie, Edward Ruscha, September - October 1985

New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Five Decades of Passion Part One: The Eye of the Collector, 1968-1988, January - April 2009

New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Stream of the Unknown: Selections from the Collection, October 2010 - January 2011

New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Language As Representation: John Baldessari, Nancy Dwyer, Barbara Kruger, Suzanne McClelland, Richard Prince and Ed Ruscha, September 2016 - August 2017

Peter Plagens, "Ruscha's Landscape," Vanity Fair, February 1986, p. 91, illustrated in color

Robert Dean, ed., Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the PaintingsVolume Three: 1983-1987, New York, 2007, no. P1984.15, pp. 106-107, illustrated in color

Neil Chiragdin, "Fiddling with form and function in fonts," Queens Chronicle, 10 November 2016 (online)