Contemporary Evening Auction
Contemporary Evening Auction
The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined
Christ Candle
Auction Closed
May 14, 12:59 AM GMT
Estimate
2,500,000 - 3,500,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined
Ed Ruscha
b. 1937
Christ Candle
signed and dated 1987 (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas
71 ¾ by 72 in.
182.2 by 182.9 cm.
Executed in 1987.
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (LC# 269)
Acquired from the above in February 1988 by the present owner
Bill Berkson, "Conversation with Ed Ruscha," Shift, Vol. 2, No. 4, 1988, p. 17 (text)
Hunter Drohojowska, "Ruscha Today: Veteran L.A. Painter Makes It Big," L.A. Style, Vol. VI, No. 1, 23 June 1990, p. 220 (text)
Riki Simons, "Highways and Hollywood," Cult Magazine, 1990, p. 10, illustrated
Ed Ruscha et. al., Leave Any Information at the Signal, Cambridge, 2002, pp. 278-79, illustrated
Robert Dean, ed., Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume Three: 1983-1987, New York, 2007, no. P1987.32, pp. 330-31, illustrated in color
Milwaukee Art Museum, 1988: The World of Art Today, May - August 1988, no. 56, p. 43 (text) and p. 104, illustrated
Paris, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou; Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen; Barcelona, Centre Cultural de la Fundació Caixa de Pensions; London, Serpentine Gallery; and Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Edward Ruscha, December 1989 - February 1991, no. 40, p. 65, illustrated in color (Paris); no. 36, p. 91, illustrated in color (Rotterdam, London, and Los Angeles); no. 36, p. 113, illustrated in color (Barcelona)
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Paint and Painted: Paintings and Sculpture from the Collection, May 1993 - April 1995, p. 2 (text)
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Ed Ruscha: Paintings and Works on Paper, 1964-2002, April 2003 - March 2005
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Stream of the Unknown: Selections from the Collection, February - April 2011
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Literary Devices, October 2014 - March 2015
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Intuitive Progression, August - November 2017
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