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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 12, 2023 | Christie's | New York | Post-War & Contemporary Art Day Sale | 107 | $****** - ****** | Pussy |
Works on Paper
17.5 x 12.4 cm (6.88 x 4.88 in)
graphite on paper
signed and dated 'E. Ruscha 1966' (lower left)
Joe Goode, Los Angeles
Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York
C&M Arts, New York
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 2005
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 DC, 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.
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).
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.
