Lot Essay
"The deep red paint used as a background was very red meat like. Texas always seemed like a state for carnivores" - Ed Ruscha
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Texas
Details
Ed Ruscha (b. 1937)
Texas
signed, dedicated and dated 'For Arlette E. Ruscha 1962' (upper right)
oil and printed paper collage on paper
13 x 13 3/8 in. (33 x 34 cm.)
Executed in 1962.
Texas
signed, dedicated and dated 'For Arlette E. Ruscha 1962' (upper right)
oil and printed paper collage on paper
13 x 13 3/8 in. (33 x 34 cm.)
Executed in 1962.
Provenance
Private collection, Los Angeles, gift of the artist
Private collection, Malibu
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Private collection, Malibu
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
M. Packham, “Vive le Texas,” Sleek, Berlin, Spring 2011, p. 63 (illustrated).
L. Turvey, Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper, Volume One: 1956-1976, New Haven, 2014, p. 98, no. D1962.43 (illustrated).
L. Turvey, Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper, Volume One: 1956-1976, New Haven, 2014, p. 98, no. D1962.43 (illustrated).
Exhibited
San Francisco, de Young Museum, Ed Ruscha and the Great American West, July-October 2016, p. 159, no. 127 (illustrated).
Sale Room Notice
Please note this work has additional exhibition history, and can be found on the Christie's website.
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