Ed Ruscha (b. 1937)
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Ed Ruscha (b. 1937)

Pain Killers, Tranquilizers, Olive

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Ed Ruscha (b. 1937)
Pain Killers, Tranquilizers, Olive
signed, titled and dated '"PAINKILLERS, TRANQUILIZERS, OLIVE" 1969 E. Ruscha' (on the overlap and on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
20 x 24in. (50.8 x 61cm.)
Painted in 1969
Provenance
Gallery Reese Palley, San Francisco.
Collection John Berggruen, San Francisco.
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York.
Donald Marron, New York.
Trish O'Donnell.
James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica.
Alan Press, Chicago.
David Zwirner Gallery, New York.
Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zurich.
Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, Hamburg.
Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zurich.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1999.
Literature
P. Plagens, 'Two Pops' in Artforum, vol. 38, no. 10, Summer 2000, New York (p. 159).
R. Dean (ed.), Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume One: 1958-1970, New York 2003, no. P1969.10 (illustrated in colour, p. 319).
Exhibited
San Francisco, Gallery Reese Palley, Three Modern Masters: Billy Al Bengston, Edward Ruscha, Frank Lloyd Wright, March-April 1969.
San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art, The Works of Edward Ruscha, March-May 1982, no. 29, pl. 52 (illustrated, p. 85). This exhibition later travelled New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, July-September 1982; Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, October-November 1982; Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, December 1982-February 1983 and Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, Part I, March-April 1983, Part II, May-June 1983.
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