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Auction Closed
May 15, 12:36 AM GMT
Estimate
4,000,000 - 6,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Ed Ruscha
(b. 1937)
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signed and dated 1999 (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas
64 by 72 in.
162 by 182.9 in.
Executed in 1999.
Anne and Anthony d’Offay, London (acquired directly from the artist)
Private Collection
Acquired from the above by the present owner
London, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, Ed Ruscha: Mountains and Portraits, May - June 2000, n.p., illustrated in color, illustrated in color (on the back cover) and illustrated in color (on the exhibition invitation)
Edinburgh, Iverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Ed Ruscha: The Mountains, August - October 2001
Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Warhol to Koons: International Contemporary Art from a Private Collection, August 2002 - January 2003
Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art; Rome, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo; and Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Ed Ruscha, March 2004 - January 2005, n.p., illustrated in color (Sydney); p. 21, illustrated in color and p. 94 (text) (Rome); and illustrated in color (on the cover) (Edinburgh)
London, Hayward Gallery; Munich, Haus der Kunst; and Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting, October 2009 - September 2010, p. 157, illustrated in color and p. 187, illustrated
Wolverhampton Art Gallery, ARTIST ROOMS: Ed Ruscha, May - October 2011
Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, ARTIST ROOMS: Music from the Balconies - Ed Ruscha and Los Angeles, April 2017 - April 2018
London, Tate Gallery, ARTIST ROOMS: Ed Ruscha, July 2019 - July 2021
David Musgrave, “Reviews: Ed Ruscha, Anthony d’Offay Gallery,” Art Monthly, No. 237, June 2000, p. 26, illustrated in color
Samantha Ellis, “Chill Out with Ed,” Evening Standard, 4 May 2000, p. 51, illustrated
Julie L. Belcove, “Art and Letters,” W Magazine, August 2000, p. 227, illustrated in color
Charles Darwent, “Signposts to the American Dream,” Independent on Sunday, 19 August 2001, p. 9, illustrated in color
Elisabeth Mahoney, “Top of the Pops: What Warhol was to New York, Ruscha is to L.A.,” The Guardian, 14 August 2001, p. 11, illustrated in color
Paul Nesbitt, “You Saw It Here First,” Botanies, Summer 2001, p. 11, illustrated
Brian Cooper, “New Art Today,” Church of England Newspaper, 5 December 2002, n.p., illustrated
Marco Belpoliti, “Ruscha: L’Uomo che Scriveva sulle Montagne,” La Stampa, 28 August 2004, p. 9, illustrated
Catriona Black, “Painted Word Uses Texts but Not Messages,” Sunday Herald, 14 November 2004, n.p., illustrated in color
Ruth Hedges, “California Dreaming,” List Festival Guide, 2004, p. 20, illustrated in color
Shaune Lakin, “Southern California Package Tours: Ed Ruscha at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney,” Art Monthly Australia, No. 170, June 2004, p. 33, illustrated in color and p. 35 (text)
Laura Cumming, “Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting; John Baldessari: Pure Beauty,” The Guardian, 17 October 2009, illustrated in color (online)
Laura Cumming, “Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting; John Baldessari: Pure Beauty,” Observer, 18 October 2009, p.11, illustrated
Josh Lobe, “Artist of Unknown, Alien America,” Camden New Journal, 3 December 2009, p. 116, illustrated
Natacha Wolinski, “Ed Ruscha: Portfolio,” Airfrance Magazine, No. 156, April 2010, p. 97, illustrated in color
Robert Dean, ed., Edward Ruscha, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume Six: 1998-2003, New York 2013, no. P1999.37, p. 138 (text) and p. 139, illustrated in color
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