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ED RUSCHA (b. 1937)

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ID 1059131
Lot 39 | ED RUSCHA (b. 1937)
ED RUSCHA (b. 1937)

Chain and Cable

signed and dated 'Ed Ruscha 1987' (on the reverse); signed again, titled and dated again 'ED RUSCHA "CHAIN AND CABLE" 1987' (on the stretcher)

acrylic on canvas

64 x 64 in. (162.6 x 162.6 cm.)

Painted in 1987.





Provenance

Robert Miller Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1987



Literature

F. Fehlau, "Ed Ruscha: I Have This Lofty Idea of Landscape Being Pivotal to Making a Picture," Flash Art, 1988, p. 72 (illustrated).

D. Kuspit, "Ed Ruscha," Artforum, February 1988, p. 145.

B. Berkson, "Conversation with Ed Ruscha," Shift, 1988, p. 15 (illustrated).

W. Wilson, "ART REVIEW: Filling Up With Ed Ruscha: A 1989 retrospective of the artist’s work at the Museum of Contemporary Art shows that the American standard isn’t what it used to be," Los Angeles Times, 10 December 1990.

P. Yvon de Vries, "Zien is Kennen," De Tijd, 1990, p. 33 (illustrated).

E. Ruscha, Leave Any Information at the Signal: Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages, Cambridge, 2002, p. 276.

R. Dean and E. Wright, eds., Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume Three: 1983-1987, New York, 2007, pp. 322-323, no. P1987.28 (illustrated).



Exhibited

New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Ed Ruscha, November 1987, n.p., pl. 14 (illustrated).

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ed Ruscha: Recent Paintings, January-April 1988, n.p., no. 5 (illustrated).

Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou; Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen; Barcelona, Fundació Caixa de Pensions; London, Serpentine Gallery and Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ed Ruscha, December 1989-March 1991, pp. 59-60, no. 39 (Paris, illustrated); pp. 88-89, no. 35 (Rotterdam, illustrated); p. 99 (Barcelona, illustrated).
Artist:Edward Ruscha (1937)
Art style:Contemporary art
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