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ED RUSCHA (B. 1937)

Lot 107
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ID 949812
Lot 107 | ED RUSCHA (B. 1937)
Estimate value
$ 180 000 – 250 000
ED RUSCHA (B. 1937)

Pussy

signed and dated 'E. Ruscha 1966' (lower left)

graphite on paper

6 7/8 x 4 7/8 in. (17 x 11.9 cm.)

Executed in 1966.





Provenance

Joe Goode, Los Angeles

Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York

C&M Arts, New York

Acquired from the above by the late owner, 2005



Literature

E. Ruscha, They Called Her Styrene, London, 2000, n.p. (illustrated).

R. D. Marshall, Ed Ruscha, London, 2003, p. 112 (illustrated).

A. Schwartz, Ed Ruscha's Los Angeles, Cambridge, 2010, pp. 220 and 222, no. 4.23 (illustrated).

L. Turvey, ed. Edward Ruscha Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper, Volume I: 1956-1976, New York, 2014, p. 167, no. D1966.04 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Edward Ruscha (Ed-werd Rew-shay), Young Artist, April-May 1972.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Vancouver Art Gallery; San Antonio Museum of Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Works of Edward Ruscha, March 1982-May 1983, n.p., no. 34 (illustrated).

New York, Richard Gray Gallery, Ed Ruscha: Works from the 60s and 70s, November-December 1998.

New York, Richard Gray Gallery, Thirty-Five Drawings, November-December 2001, p. 60 (illustrated).

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art and Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Cotton Puffs, Q-Tips®, Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha, June 2004-May 2005, p. 79, no. 37 (illustrated).

New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Sunsets and Pussy, June-August 2013.



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