Lot 237
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Edward Ruscha (b. 1937)
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE SWISS COLLECTION
Edward Ruscha (b. 1937)

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Price realised GBP 87,500
Estimate
GBP 80,000 – GBP 120,000
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Edward Ruscha (b. 1937)

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Price realised GBP 87,500
Closed: 7 Mar 2019
Price realised GBP 87,500
Closed: 7 Mar 2019
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Edward Ruscha (b. 1937)
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signed and dated 'Ed Ruscha 1990 '(lower right)
dry pigment and acrylic on paper
image: 10 7/8 x 18 1/8in. (27.5 x 46cm.)
sheet: 15 x 22 ¼in. (38 x 56.5cm.)
Executed in 1990
Provenance
Galleria d'Arte Il Gabbiano, Rome.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
E. Ruscha, They Called Her Styrene, London 2000 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).
L. Turvey (ed.) Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper, Volume Two: 1977-1997, New York 2018, no. D1990.22 (illustrated in colour, p. 315).
Exhibited
Barcelona, Galeria Joan Prats, Ed Ruscha: Pintures sobre paper, 1990 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).
New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, 30th Anniversary Exhibition of Drawings: To Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, 1994.
Rome, Galleria d'Arte Il Gabbiano, Edward Ruscha: '90s, 2001, no. 14 (illustrated in colour, p. 23).
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