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Details

Edward Ruscha (b. 1937)
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signed and dated 'Ed Ruscha 1990 '(lower right)
dry pigment and acrylic on paper
image: 10 7/8 x 18 1/8in. (27.5 x 46cm.)
sheet: 15 x 22 ¼in. (38 x 56.5cm.)
Executed in 1990

Provenance

Galleria d'Arte Il Gabbiano, Rome.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Literature

E. Ruscha, They Called Her Styrene, London 2000 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).
L. Turvey (ed.) Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper, Volume Two: 1977-1997, New York 2018, no. D1990.22 (illustrated in colour, p. 315).

Exhibited

Barcelona, Galeria Joan Prats, Ed Ruscha: Pintures sobre paper, 1990 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).
New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, 30th Anniversary Exhibition of Drawings: To Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, 1994.
Rome, Galleria d'Arte Il Gabbiano, Edward Ruscha: '90s, 2001, no. 14 (illustrated in colour, p. 23).

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‘I like the idea of a word becoming a picture, almost leaving its body, then coming back and becoming a word again. I see myself working with two things that don’t even ask to understand each other.’
– Edward Ruscha

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