Ed Ruscha
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Ed Ruscha

Kidney Beans on Galvanized Steel

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Ed Ruscha
Kidney Beans on Galvanized Steel
signed and dated 'Edward Ruscha 1974' (on the reverse)
gunpowder and pastel on paper
14 x 22 5/8 in. (35.6 x 57.5 cm.)
Executed in 1974.
Provenance
Robert Harshorn Shimshak, Berkeley
Wolff Gallery, New York
Karsten Schubert, London
Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York
Michel Cohen, Malibu
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles
Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco
Modernism, Inc., San Francisco
Tom Patchett, Los Angeles
His sale; Sotheby's, London, 8 February 2002, lot 163
Private collection
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, London, 23 June 2005, lot 138
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
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. 367, no. D1974.09 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, An Exhibition in Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., January-February 1976.
New York, Christine Burgin Gallery, Seeing is Believing, February-March 1989.
San Francisco, Modernism, Inc., Ed Ruscha: Early Drawings, October-December 1991.
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Museo de las Artes de la Universidad de Guadalajara and Instituto Cultural Cabañas; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey; Mexico City, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo; Santiago de Compostela, Auditorio de Galicia and Iglesia de Santo Domingo de Bonaval and Logroño, Sala Amós Salvador, Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection, June 1998-February 2000, vol. 1, p. 41 (illustrated).

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