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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 22, 2024 | Christie's | New York | Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale | 605 | $****** - ****** | Psychedelic-Indian-Guru-New Mexico-Fadeout-Photo-Realism |
Works on Paper
58.1 x 74 cm (22.88 x 29.13 in)
pastel on paper
signed and dated "Edward Ruscha 1976" (on the reverse)
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner, 1977
New York, Museum of Modern Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN , September 2023-October 2024, pp. 205 and 321 (illustrated).
Art in America 66 , no. 5, September-October 1978 (illustrated on the cover).
E. Ruscha, Guacamole Airlines and Other Drawings by Edward Ruscha , New York, 1980, p. 71, pl. 61 (illustrated).
R. C. Morgan, "Pastel, Juice and Gunpowder: The Pico Iconography of Ed Ruscha," Journal: A Contemporary Art Magazine, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art 3, no. 10, September-October 1981, p. 31.
Edward Ruscha: Romance with Liquids, Paintings 1966-1969 , exh. cat., New York, Gagosian Gallery, 1993, p. 108.
E. Ruscha, They Called Her Styrene , London, 2000, n.p. (illustrated).
M. Gayford, "So I Keep Rolling Along," Modern Painters , Winter, 2001, p. 80.
L. Turvey, ed., Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonn é of the Works on Paper, Volume One: 1956-1976 , New Haven and London, 2014, p. 434, no. D1976.51 (illustrated).
T. McGlynn, "Ed Ruscha/Now Then," The Brooklyn Rail , October 2023, www.brooklynrail.org [accessed 10.10.24].
ED RUSCHA (B. 1937)
Psychedelic-Indian-Guru-New Mexico-Fadeout-Photo-Realism
signed and dated "Edward Ruscha 1976" (on the reverse)
pastel on paper
22 7/8 x 29 1/8 in. (57.6 x 73.9 cm.)
Executed in 1976.
