Lot Essay
“I like the idea of a word becoming a picture... almost leaving its body, then coming back and becoming a word again,"
- Ed Ruscha
- Ed Ruscha
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The Clarke Collection
Ed Ruscha (b. 1937)
Corrosive Liquids
Details
Ed Ruscha (b. 1937)
Corrosive Liquids
signed and dated 'E. Ruscha 1973' (lower left)
gunpowder and graphite on paper
14 ½ x 23 in. (36.8 x 58.4 cm.)
Executed in 1973.
Corrosive Liquids
signed and dated 'E. Ruscha 1973' (lower left)
gunpowder and graphite on paper
14 ½ x 23 in. (36.8 x 58.4 cm.)
Executed in 1973.
Provenance
James Meeker, San Diego
Monk and Pamela White, Dallas
Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe
Bette and Herman Ziegler, New York
Ikkan Art International, New York
Meredith Palmer Gallery, New York
Galerie Andy Jillen, Zürich
Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York
Greenberg van Doren Gallery, St. Louis
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Monk and Pamela White, Dallas
Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe
Bette and Herman Ziegler, New York
Ikkan Art International, New York
Meredith Palmer Gallery, New York
Galerie Andy Jillen, Zürich
Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York
Greenberg van Doren Gallery, St. Louis
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
L. Turvey, Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper, Volume One: 1956-1976, New Haven, 2014, p. 345, no. D1973.56 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Edward Tyler Nahem, Ed Ruscha: Ribbon Words, May-July 2016, p. 91 (illustrated).
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Emily Kaplan