ED RUSCHA (b. 1937)

Screaming In Spanish

Details

ED RUSCHA (b. 1937)
Screaming In Spanish
signed, titled and dated 'Edward Ruscha 1974 "SCREAMING IN SPANISH"' (on the overlap)
shellac on taffeta
36 x 40 in. (91.4 x 101.7 cm.)
Painted in 1974

Provenance

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York.
Locksley Shea Gallery, Minneapolis.
Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 18 May 1979, lot 54.
The Estate of John M. and Marion A. Shea; Christie's, New York, 19 November 1997, lot 331.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

H. Solomon, "'We Humans': California Surfaces in New York," Art-Rite, no. 6, summer 1974, p. 6.

Exhibited

New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Edward Ruscha, March-April 1974.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Vancouver Art Gallery; Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Works of Edward Ruscha, March 1982-June 1983, p. 114, no. 42, pl. 87 (illustrated in color).

Lot Essay

This work will be included in the forthcoming Ed Ruscha catalogue raisonné volume I being prepared by Pat Poncy as archive number P1974.14.

This work has been requested for the upcoming exhibition EDWARD RUSCHA: MADE IN THE USA being organized by Richard Marshall and to take place at the Reina Sofia, Madrid, July-September 2002.

Screaming In Spanish

Lot Essay

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