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ED RUSCHA (B. 1937)
ED RUSCHA (B. 1937)
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ED RUSCHA (B. 1937)

Eye #3

Details
ED RUSCHA (B. 1937)
Eye #3
signed, inscribed and dated 'E. Ruscha 1967 gp' (lower left)
gunpowder on paper
7 7/8 x 9 7/8 (19.5 x 24.6 cm.)
Executed in 1967.
Provenance
Alexandre lolas Gallery, New York
Anon. sale; Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 18 October 1973, lot 60
Muriel Wolgin, Philadelphia
Elizabeth Clement Fine Art, Danvers, Massachusetts
Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York
C&M Arts, New York
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 2005
Literature
L. Turvey, ed. Edward Ruscha Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper, Volume I: 1956-1976, New York, 2014, p. 214, no. D1967.99 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Alexandre Iolas Gallery, Edward Ruscha: Gunpowder Drawings, December 1967-January 1968.
Special Notice
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Lot Essay

"…if you look at a word long enough, it begins to lose its meaning." (E. Ruscha, quoted by U. Wilmes, “Once Upon a Time in the Present,” in R. Rugoff et. al. Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting, exh. cat., Hayward Gallery, London, 2009).

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