ED RUSCHA (b. 1937)

Space Study [#1]

Price realised USD 226,800
Estimate
USD 200,000 – USD 300,000
Estimates do not reflect the final hammer price and do not include buyer's premium, and applicable taxes or artist's resale right. Please see Section D of the Conditions of Sale for full details.
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ED RUSCHA (b. 1937)

Space Study [#1]

Price realised USD 226,800
Price realised USD 226,800
Details
ED RUSCHA (b. 1937)
Space Study [#1]
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'E.R. '63' (lower right)
colored pencil and graphite on tracing paper
4 5⁄8 x 4 ¼ in. (11.7 x 10.8 cm.)
Drawn in 1963.
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner, 2004
Literature
E. Ruscha, They Called Her Styrene, London, 2000, n.p. (illustrated).
L. Turvey, ed. Edward Ruscha Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper, Volume I: 1956-1976, New York, 2014, p. 110, no. D1963.03 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Los Angeles, 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, n.p., no. 25 (illustrated).
New York, Andrea Rosen Gallery, Looking at Words: One Hundred Years of Formal Use of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, November 2005-January 2006, pp. 29, 66 and 198 (illustrated and installation view illustrated).

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