Automatic
Details
Ed Ruscha (b. 1937)
Automatic
signed and dated 'E. Ruscha 1966' (lower left)
graphite on paper
image: 6 x 4 in. (15.2 x 10.2 cm.)
sheet: 6 7/8 x 4 7/8 in. (17.5 x 12.4 cm.)
Executed in 1966.
Automatic
signed and dated 'E. Ruscha 1966' (lower left)
graphite on paper
image: 6 x 4 in. (15.2 x 10.2 cm.)
sheet: 6 7/8 x 4 7/8 in. (17.5 x 12.4 cm.)
Executed in 1966.
Provenance
The artist
Private collection, New York
Private collection, New York
Literature
L. Turvey, Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper, Volume One: 1956-1976, New Haven, 2014, p. 173, no. D1966.22 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art; Rome, Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo and Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Ed Ruscha, March 2004-January 2005, p. 71 (illustrated).
Pasadena, Mendenhall Sobieski Gallery, Two Artists-Two Worlds: Drawings of Ed Ruscha and Robert Williams, June-July 2006, p. 16 (illustrated).
New York, Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art, Ed Ruscha: Ribbon Words, May-July 2016, pp. 7, 32 and 96 (illustrated).
Pasadena, Mendenhall Sobieski Gallery, Two Artists-Two Worlds: Drawings of Ed Ruscha and Robert Williams, June-July 2006, p. 16 (illustrated).
New York, Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art, Ed Ruscha: Ribbon Words, May-July 2016, pp. 7, 32 and 96 (illustrated).
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