Lot Essay
This work will be included in the forthcoming Edward Ruscha Catalogue Raisonné of Works on Paper Volume IV 1992-2002, edited by Dr. Rainer Crone and Dr. Petrus Schaesberg.
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Stunt People
Details
Ed Ruscha (b. 1937)
Stunt People
signed and dated 'Ed Ruscha 1998' (lower right); inscribed 'STUNT PEOPLE: BOBBY? BUSTER KEATON BURT? GLEN? JACKY CHAN YAKIMA CANUIT WALLY? DANA? HEIDI? SARAH? JOEY? PATTY? BUDDY JOE HOOKER JIMMY? CORKY? DONNIE? Z-MAN DICK ZICKER DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS HAL NEEDHAM' (on the reverse)
acrylic and ink on paper
20 x 30 in. (50.8 x 76.2 cm.)
Painted in 1998.
Stunt People
signed and dated 'Ed Ruscha 1998' (lower right); inscribed 'STUNT PEOPLE: BOBBY? BUSTER KEATON BURT? GLEN? JACKY CHAN YAKIMA CANUIT WALLY? DANA? HEIDI? SARAH? JOEY? PATTY? BUDDY JOE HOOKER JIMMY? CORKY? DONNIE? Z-MAN DICK ZICKER DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS HAL NEEDHAM' (on the reverse)
acrylic and ink on paper
20 x 30 in. (50.8 x 76.2 cm.)
Painted in 1998.
Provenance
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
Spruth Magers Lee Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Spruth Magers Lee Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
E. Ruscha, They Call Her Styrene, London, 2000 (illustrated in color).
Exhibited
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art and Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Cotton Puffs, Q-Tips, Smoke & Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha, June 2004-May 2005, p. 229 (illustrated in color).