Radar

Details

ED RUSCHA (B. 1937)
Radar
signed and dated 'Edward Ruscha 1976' (on the reverse)
pastel and graphite on paper
22 1⁄8 x 28 1⁄8 in. (56.1 x 71.4 cm.)
Executed in 1976.

Provenance

Ace Gallery, Los Angeles
Private collection, Vancouver
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 5 May 1994, 200
Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
C&M Arts, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1997

Literature

E. Ruscha, They Called Her Styrene, London, 2000, n.p. (illustrated).
L. Turvey, ed., Edward Ruscha Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper, Volume I, 1956-1976, New York, 2014, p. 430, no. D1976.41 (illustrated).

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"Ruscha has played a crucial role in bringing painting into conversation with changes across the larger contemporary landscape. Retooling the mechanisms of our routine perception with a finely-honed sense of secular wonder, his paintings have illuminated the intersection of popular culture ordinariness and grandeur, the mundane and the sublime." - Ralph Rugoff (R. Rugoff, “Heavenly Noises,” in R. Rugoff, Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting, exh. cat., Hayward Gallery, London, 2010, p. 11).

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