ED RUSCHA | THE END #45
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May 28, 01:31 PM GTNN
Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
ED RUSCHA
b. 1937
THE END #45
signed and dated 2004 ; titled on the reverse
acrylic and ink on museum board
60.6 by 76.2 cm. 23⅞by 30 in.
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Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
Private collects ion
Max Lang, New York
Private collects ion
Sotheby’s, New York, May 13, 2009, lot 191
L & M Arts, New York
Private collects ion
Phillips, New York, 13 November 2019, Lot 165
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Santa Monica, IKON, Ltd., Spring 2006 Exhibition, April 8, 2006 - May 27, 2006
New York, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, The Other Side, May 5 - July 20, 2006
Exh. Cat., Claremont, Pomona College Museum of Art, Ed Ruscha / Raymond Pettibon: The Holy Bible and The End, 2006, p. 13, illustrated
“If I’m influenced by the movies, it’s from way down underneath, not just on the surface. A lot of my paintings are anonymous backdrops for the drama of words. In a way they’re words in front of the old Paramount mountain... I have a background, foreground. It’s so simple. And the backgrounds are of no particular character. They’re just.mes ant to support the drama."
Ed Rucscha cited in Exh. Cat., Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cotton Puffs, Q-Tips, Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha, 2004-05, p. 21)