ED RUSCHA | Oaks, Oats

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner in 1999

London, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, Ed Ruscha, June – July 1998
Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art; Rome, Museo Nazionale Delle Arti Del XXI Secolo, Ed Ruscha, March – September 2004
Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Ed Ruscha: Paintings, Drawings, Photographs, Books, November 2004 – January 2005
London, Winfield House (US Ambassador’s residence), Art in Embassies Program, October – November 2011

Ed Ruscha, They Called Her Styrene, London 2000, n.p., illustrated in color
Victoria Dejaco, Stéphane Mallarmés Raumkonzept in zeitgenössischen Positionen: Marcel Broodthaers und Edward Ruscha, Vienna 2011, pl. 48, p. 74 (text), p. 122, illustrated in color
Lisa Turvey, Ed., Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper, Volume Two, 1977-1997, New York 2018, cat. no. D1977.17, p. 54, illustrated in color

This work is in very good condition overall. The colors are bright, fresh and clean. There is a slight undulation to the sheet inherent to the artist's working method and chosen medium. Under very close inspection, there is light evidence of handling and wear to the edges including a minute and unobtrusive skinning to the paper surface isolated to the extreme lower right corner measuring no more than 1/16 of an inch. Under extremely close inspection, there is a pinpoint brown spot accretion measuring less than 1/16 of an inch in the lower left corner, 3 inches from the bottom edge and two inches from the left edge. The sheet is hinged intermittently along the edges verso to the mat. Framed under Plexiglas.
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"I see myself working with two things that don't even ask to understand each other. I like the emptiness of things at the same time that I like things that are power-packed." Ed Ruscha