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Property from a Prestigious Private European Collection

Ed Ruscha

That Was Then This Is Now

Auction Closed

May 16, 01:17 AM GMT

Estimate

7,000,000 - 10,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Prestigious Private European Collection

Ed Ruscha

b. 1937


That Was Then This Is Now

signed and dated 1989 (on the reverse); signed, titled and dated 1989 (on the stretcher)

acrylic on canvas

42 by 96 in.

106.7 by 243.8 cm.

Executed in 1989.

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (LC# ER 332)

Fred Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles

Jay Chiat, Los Angeles (acquired from the above in 1989) 

Sotheby's New York, 13 November 2002, lot 128 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Belgium (acquired at the above sale) 

Phillips de Pury & Company London, 29 June 2009, lot 11

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner 

Robert Dean and Lisa Turvey, eds., Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, 1988-1992, Volume Four: 1988-1992, New York 2009, no. P1989.16, pp. 136-37, illustrated in color

Calvin Tompkins, "Ed Ruscha's L.A.," The New Yorker, 24 June 2013 (text) (online)

Michael H. Miller, "Ed Ruscha: He Up and Went Home," The New York Times, 15 January 2020 (text) (online)