Lot Essay
This work will be included in the forthcoming Ed Ruscha catalogue raisonné, volume II, being prepared by Pat Poncy and will be assigned an archive number at a later time.
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Spasm
Details
Ed Ruscha (b. 1937)
Spasm
signed and dated 'Ed Ruscha 1987' (on the reverse) and signed again, titled and dated again 'ED RUSCHA "SPASM" 1987' (on the stretcher bar)
acrylic on canvas
60 x 54 in. (152.5 x 137.2 cm.)
Painted in 1987.
Spasm
signed and dated 'Ed Ruscha 1987' (on the reverse) and signed again, titled and dated again 'ED RUSCHA "SPASM" 1987' (on the stretcher bar)
acrylic on canvas
60 x 54 in. (152.5 x 137.2 cm.)
Painted in 1987.
Provenance
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles
Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 2 May 1991, lot 264
Acquired after the above sale by the present owner
Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 2 May 1991, lot 264
Acquired after the above sale by the present owner
Exhibited
Paris, Musée national d'art moderne; Centre Georges Pompidou; Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen; Barcelona, Centre Cultural de la Fundació Caixa de Pensions; London, The Serpentine Gallery and Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Edward Ruscha, December 1989-February 1991, pp. 68 and 79 (illustrated in color).