Ed Ruscha (b. 1937)
Super Suds
signed and dated 'Ed Ruscha 1961' (lower right)
graphite and colored pencil on paper
10 7/8 x 8 3/8 in. (27.6 x 21.3 cm.)
Drawn in 1961.
Provenance
Cliff Benjamin
Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art and Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, Cotton Puffs, Q-Tips, Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha, June 2004-May 2006, pp. 12, 51 and 257, no. 9 (illustrated in color).
Lot Essay
This work will be included in the forthcoming Edward Ruscha Catalogue Raisonné of Works on Paper, Volume I, 1956-1969, edited by Dr. Rainer Crone and Dr. Petrus Schaesberg.
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