Ed Ruscha
The Clarke Collection
Ed Ruscha

3 Forks

Details
Ed Ruscha
3 Forks
signed, inscribed and dated 'E. Ruscha 1967 gp' (lower left)
gunpowder on paper
14 ¼ x 22 ¾ in. (36.2 x 57.8 cm.)
Executed in 1967.
Provenance
Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York
Private collection
Anon. sale; Sotheby Parke Bernet, 20 October 1978, lot 142
Private collection
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, Galleria Il Gabbiano, Rome and James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles
Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2003
Literature
E. Ruscha, They Called Her Styrene, London, 2000, n.p. (illustrated).
L. Turvey, Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper, Volume One: 1956-1976, New Haven, 2014, p. 213, no. D1967.95 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Cologne, Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Edward Ruscha: Gunpowder Drawings, May 1968.
San Francisco, John Berggruen Gallery, Edward Ruscha: Powders, Pressures and Other Drawings, March-April 2000, pp. 34-35 (illustrated).
San Francisco, John Berggruen Gallery, A Way with Words, June-August 2003.
New York, Craig F. Starr Gallery, Ruscha Gunpowder Ribbon Drawings, October-December 2007.
New York, Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Arts, Ed Ruscha: Ribbon Words, May-July 2016, pp. 48 and 96 (illustrated).

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